West London came to a halt during Thursday (January 16) evening rush hour when two cars crashed causing severe injuries to one driver and then another crash happened due to rubbernecking.
A 34-year-old woman was taken by ambulance to St Mary's Hospital in Paddington where the area's trauma centre is located following the crash by Fuller's brewery near Hogarth Roundabout .
A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "We were called to the Great West Road at 3:30pm to reports of a collision. We sent a responder in a car and one ambulance.
"We treated a 34-year-old woman for head, neck and shoulder pain and took her to St Mary's as a priority."
Another collision happened about an hour later due to rubberneckers on the other side of the first crash, causing absolutely mayhem throughout the whole of west London.
Transport for London (TfL) reported tailbacks in both directions from just before Chiswick's Hogarth Roundabout right up to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington.
A TfL spokesman said: "We're working to get traffic moving as quickly as possible."
