A MOTORCYCLIST has been airlifted to hospital following a crash in Borehamwood this afternoon.

Ambulance crews arrived at the A1 entry slip road into Borehamwood at around 4.30pm following a report of a motorbike in collision with a lorry.

Fire crews from Borehamwood and Watford attended the scene and an air ambulance was sent from Essex.

Ambulance service spokesman Gary Sanderson said: "Paramedics have treated and stabilised a man who has sustained serious injuries after the motorbike he was riding became trapped under a lorry.

"Due to the patient's injuries, he has been airlifted to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel."

Witness Neville Lofthouse, from Borehamwood, was a passenger in a friend’s car and dialled 999 when he saw the man trapped just after the crash.

He said: “I saw the gentleman under the lorry. The bike was in pieces. There was a lot of blood — it was pretty bad.”

He said the slip road, as you leave Borehamwood towards London on the A1, was dangerous because of limited visibility.

“That section of road is a nightmare,” he said. “People behind you are pressuring you to get out.

“The road needs to be opened further so the cars can run down and then see people behind them. There’s lots of room to do this.

“That accident could have been fatal.”