THE husband of a charity boss hit by a bus in a recently reopened Harrow Town Centre road is calling for safety measures to be introduced.

Zuhur Elmi, 49, chair of Southall based Somali Youth Helpline, stepped out in front of a no 140 double decker bus in Station Road thinking the area was still pedestrianised, husband Mohamed Kahin told the Harrow Times.

The impact, just after 10am on Wednesday, left the Harrow Weald resident, of Long Elms, fighting for her life with head and chest injuries in St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where she is now in a stable condition.

Mr Kahin, 55, has been by her bedside and the couple are together appealing for Harrow Council to introduce safety measures, including a barrier around the pavement.

He said: “There are issues of safety. This is nothing personal about what happened. Our concern is the welfare of the community and I think there are issues that need to be looked at.

“We just want to prevent a possible occurrence of similar accidents. If there is a way we could draw the attention of the council to look at this seriously and do something about it – that's the intention.”

He added: “When I went to A&E the doctors told me that they did a scan and x-ray and shes fine apart from trauma and bruises, but she lived.

“I'm getting over the shock. She's alright considering what happened and how it happened. She is in Paddington in the major trauma unit, she's stabilising now. She's much better.”

Mrs Elmi is familiar with the area, having lived in Harrow since 1991, and the section of Station Road where she was hit was once a one-way bus route going north.

It was closed to traffic altogether for months while works to widen the road took place and only reopened as a two way bus route on Saturday, March 26.

She was hit by a bus driving south and the accident was so shocking it reduced the driver to tears, eye witnesses say.

The couple thanked the police, paramedics and hospital staff for their help and support, particularly praising officers who drove Mr Kahin to the hospital to see his wife.

Mr Kahin, who was teaching when he found out about the accident, said: “She's quite a careful person, she's been in Harrow for the last 20 years. She's quite familiar with road safety.”