A female Coronation Street director was injured on set earlier today when a car collided with her.

At around 12.30pm, preparations were underway for filming a scene, which involved a small amount of non-essential background car movement.

However, filming was halted when an action car collided with the unnamed female member of the production team. No cast or other crew members were involved.

She was subsequently taken to Manchester Royal Hospital to be checked by doctors.

A Weatherfield spokeswoman this afternoon said: "We can confirm an accident occurred on the set of Coronation Street today during filming. The accident occurred as the crew were setting up for a scene which involved a small amount of vehicle movement.

"Contrary to press speculation, this accident did not occur during the filming of a stunt. The female director has been injured as a consequence and been taken to hospital. No other member of the crew or cast has been injured."

Producers have since called in ITV's health and safety advisors to investigate the incident.

The spokeswoman added: "ITV's health and safety team on-site in Manchester are currently conducting an investigation into how this accident occurred and are liaising with the Health and Safety Executive."

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CORONATION Street was plunged into chaos this morning after a female director was STRUCK by a car during filming.

The production member was mowed down as cast and crew filmed scenes for the Manchester-based soap at Granada’s famous Quay Street studios.

Worried bosses and stars immediately halted filming and ambulances arrived to treat everyone caught up in the smash.

The female director involved was later taken to hospital.

A source told The Sun: “One minute they were filming and the next minute ambulances were screeching along the cobbles.

“Everyone was very worried for a while though it soon emerged there was no life-threatening injuries.

“However, filming has been cancelled and there has been some damage to the set.

“It’s definitely going to play havoc with the tight filming schedules.”

An ITV spokeswoman said: "We can confirm an accident occurred on the set of Coronation Street this morning during filming.

"The accident occurred as the crew were setting up for a scene which involved a small amount of vehicle movement.

"The female director has been injured as a consequence and been taken to hospital. No other member of the crew or cast has been injured."

Bosses are now conducting an investigation into how the accident occurred.

The spokeswoman added: "ITV’s Health and Safety team on site in Manchester are currently conducting an investigation into how this accident has occurred and are liaising with the Health and Safety Executive.”

The Sun

I read that on sky news i was like what the. Hope the director is ok though

i read about that on aol.

tut bad Ken

Silly Horny Ken! :nono:

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CORONATION Street stars watched in horror as a runaway car mowed down the director on set yesterday.

Kay Patrick was hit as she set up a scene on the cobbles near the Rovers Return when the car’s accelerator jammed.

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Hit ... Kay Patrick

Vicky Binns, 26, who plays Molly Compton, fled in tears while Michael Le Vell, 44 — mechanic Kevin Webster — was shaken.

Kay, 68, was last night being treated at Manchester Royal Infirmary for a suspected fractured hip.

Another production staff member was hit and slightly hurt.

The driver was treated at the scene for shock.

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Help ... ambulance at scene


Filming on the ITV1 soap was halted for the day at Granada Studios, Manchester.

One fan waiting for autographs outside said: “I heard a really loud bang then screaming.

"Then I saw crew and cast members running across the set. Some were crying. They all looked pretty shocked.”

A Corrie insider said: “The cast and crew are absolutely horrified.

“The car was being driven around when the accelerator pedal jammed. It lurched forward, knocking down Kay. She was in agony and everyone feared the worst. Thankfully she just injured her hip.”

Veteran soap director Kay’s credits include EastEnders, Holby City, Emmerdale, Brookside and Crossroads.

She started out as an actress on classics like Dr Who and Z Cars in the 60s.

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Glad to hear Kay will be alright :thumbs:

The amount of bad things that have happened to the cast this year is getting worse...so is Coronation Street actually cursed?

I think Corrie need to cut down their hours, at the moment its two episodes on monday AND friday, and a hour shared between the other days. Which is THREE hours which is wayy to much IMO, and its making the quality in general go down. They should have it like they used to a few years back.

It actually has pretty much the same as the others

Emmerdale = equivalent of 6 episodes a week
Eastenders = Around the same as Corrie (Doesnt have commercial breaks)
Hollyoaks = Same as Corrie

Although I agree, it would benefit from dropping an episode, or moving one back to Sunday

How d'ya work that out?

5 half an hour eps = 2 and a half hours :\

:thumbs::xyxwave:

Its 6. (3 hours minus - 30 mins commercials)
Eastenders is 2 hours only, and Hollyoaks is 2 hours without commercials.

Monday = 2
Wednesday = 1
Friday = 2

2 + 2 = 4 + 1 = 5 :laugh:

No


This is normal in many sections of Life.
time moves on - changes happen.


Bang On Normal.



No Curse.

Am I missing an episode a week? Lol xD

2 on a Monday
1 on a Wednesday
2 on a Friday

2 + 1 + 2 = 5?

Oh haha, I thought there was one on thursday lool.
But I dont know, I just find it boring these days.
Ken gets bored of Deirdre, Steve gets a new woman, Fiz sees John Stape again... the only good thing is Blanche

No your right Nicky
and Chewy im thinking that as well

Aye, but the amount of rewrites that have had to have been done these past months cause of all these incidents will have something to do with it

I think they need to have more of a EE style these days if they want to keep the hours, just focus on a different set of characters each week, so we dont keep coming back to the same storylines again and again, yet they can 'brew' if you get me???

And we need something new and interesting to happen.

I like Corrie way of doing it, they rotate storylines, such as Tony for two weeks, then another storyline for two weeks

Although, we do need summat big to happen, the Rovers drugs raid should be a good watch though :hello:

Oh whats this?

I agree, they need another big Storyline. A Graphic storyline if you know what i mean, something huge. My FAve corrie storyline ever has been the MAd Maya one, with Dev and Sunita. I also like The Richard Hillman one!

[spoil]Slug (Becky's ex, last seen in '07) and corrupt Copper Hooch set Becky up, and get the Rovers raided, and Becky arrested[/spoil]

Im looking forward to Carla coming back as well