M6 crash horror injures baby and six-year-old girl

A baby aged just one-year-old has been confirmed as the youngest of casualties in a horror M6 crash near Preston. Emergency services stopped traffic in response to a multi-car collision before rushing nine people, including a six-year-old girl, to hospital on Monday. The driver and front seat passenger of a BMW, a man and woman in their 30s, sustained serious injuries in the four-vehicle crash, alongside a six-year-old girl who was in the rear passenger seat.

A one-year-old boy in the back of the car also suffered minor injuries, Lancashire Police said. Authorities said a total of eight people remained in hospital after the incident, which happened at around 10:30am on Monday, although none were thought to have life-threatening injuries.

The serious collision saw a stretch of the M6 between junctions 33 and 32 shut for hours after a BMW 4 series collided with a Honda CR-V, causing both cars to hit the central reservation barrier.

The Honda then collided with a Nissan X-Trail and the BMW collided with a Honda HR-V. The driver and front-seat passenger of the Honda, a man and woman in their 80s, and a woman in her 30s who was driving the Nissan also suffered minor injuries.

Sergeant Anthony Beckett of Lancashire Police's Roads Policing Unit, said: "This collision resulted in a number of people suffering some very serious injuries and resulted in some major disruption and delay for many motorists.

"I would like to thank those people for their understanding and patience while we dealt with a very difficult scene.

"I do appreciate that the closure of the motorway for such a long time is frustrating, but we worked hard to make sure that we and our partners were able to deal with the injured parties and to carry out our collision investigation work while aiming to reopen the road as soon as we were able."

"I would appeal to anyone who saw the collision itself, or the BMW driving prior to the collision, or who has any dashcam footage, to get in touch."

Anyone with information about the crash can make a report by calling 101 quoting log 0430 of July 14th.