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| M6 delays after vehicles collide | |
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| Drivers have been warned to expect delays on the M6 near Coventry after a crash between two cars and two lorries. | |
| Three lanes were closed after the collision on the northbound carriageway of the motorway between junctions 3a, the turn-off for the M6 Toll, and 3. | |
| One person was trapped in their vehicle and another was "walking wounded", West Midlands Ambulance Service said. | One person was trapped in their vehicle and another was "walking wounded", West Midlands Ambulance Service said. |
| Ambulance crews said it was remarkable no-one was more seriously hurt given the number of vehicles involved. | |
| Emergency services were called near to junction 3a, Coleshill, at about 0720 GMT. | |
| Lost a wheel | |
| Three lanes were closed but reopened at about 0930 GMT, the Highways Agency said. | |
| "Crews arrived to find two cars, two articulated lorries carrying mobile homes and a tipper truck which had been involved in a collision," an ambulance spokesman said. | |
| "The Volkswagen Golf was facing the wrong direction in the outside lane and a Ford Fiesta had lost one wheel and was on the hard shoulder approximately 100 yards further down the carriageway," | |
| The driver of the Golf, a woman in her 30s, suffered neck and leg injuries in the crash and firefighters helped remove from the vehicle before she was taken University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire. | |
| The driver of the Fiesta, a man in his 30s, suffered a minor shoulder injury and did not need hospital treatment. |