M6 MOTORWAY FATAL CRASH: a minute ago 5 teenager found dead in motoerway fatal crash just now policed identified….
M6 MOTORWAY FATAL CRASH: a minute ago 5 teenager found dead in motoerway fatal crash just now policed identified….
Five people, including two children, have been killed in a crash on the M6 which police say may have involved a car travelling in the wrong direction.
The collision happened on the northbound carriageway, past Tebay services, on Tuesday at 16:04 BST.
A third child – a seven year-old boy who was also in the Toyota – was airlifted to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle by air ambulance with serious injuries.
The crash happened on the M6 Northbound, north of Tebay services
Eyewitness Chris Isles said he was stuck in stationary traffic near the crash for more than three hours and could “see black smoke and flames”.
The 58-year-old, from Kirkoswald near Penrith, said: “From where I was, it just seemed like a vehicle fire.
“I was parked up and I could see the smoke.
“I literally must have been two minutes behind it happening.”
Mr Isles said he got out of his campervan and saw “quite a big fire” and said he felt “really shocked”.
A 42-year-old man and 33-year-old woman from Glasgow, travelling in a Toyota with two boys, aged 15 and seven, were pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of a Skoda, a 40-year-old man from Cambridgeshire, also died.
Cumbria Police said it had been called out to reports of a Skoda travelling southbound on the northbound carriageway.
A 14-year-old boy was killed when a van he was a passenger in left a motorway and crashed into a tree, police have said.
Emergency services were called just after 12:15 BST on Sunday after the Peugeot van left the southbound M6 between junctions 34 and 33 in Lancashire.
Lancashire Police said the boy was pronounced dead at the scene.
His father, a man in his 30s who was driving the van, suffered serious injuries and has been taken to hospital, the force said.
National Highways said earlier that an air ambulance had been called to the southbound carriageway.
Motorists have been warned of significant delays following the collision.
Police are appealing for anyone with dashcam or mobile phone footage to come forward.
