Police are encouraging pedestrians to go to extra lengths to make themselves visible to motorists.

The warning comes after two people were injured in separate road accidents in Bradford yesterday.

One of the victims was left needing hospital treatment. The male teenage pedestrian was involved in a collision with a Peugeot in Harrogate Road, Eccleshill, at 7.45am.

He was conscious when emergency services arrived at the scene but paramedics took him to Bradford Royal Infirmary. Police described his injuries as serious but not life-threatening.

The car in the accident stopped at the scene and the road reopened at 9.10am.

The other accident involved a 34-year-old woman who was in collision with a vehicle in Thorncliffe Road, off Manningham Lane, Bradford, at 8.15am. Police said she injured her arm.

Police are keen to reduce the number of pedestrians injured in accidents. In the last 15 months there have been 27 fatal accidents involving vehicles and pedestrians.

Officers believe the use of higher visibility clothing at all times may prevent these collisions.

Sergeant Garry Alderson, of West Yorkshire Police’s Major Collision Enquiry Team, said: “By adding one item of higher visibility clothing or just by wearing lighter clothing, at anytime of day or night you will make yourself more noticeable and hopefully this will reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries as a result of collisions.”

Another accident on the district’s roads yesterday caused traffic tailbacks in Queensbury, Bradford.

A Renault car and a lorry collided at the scene of the accident in Albert Road and High Street at 8am.

Councillor Michael Ellis (Con, Bingley Rural) was driving through Queensbury shortly afterwards, said: “A car had gone right under the trailer of a wagon. The traffic was absolutely horrific.”