Fire crews fight to free driver

FIRE-FIGHTERS were fighting to free the male driver of a Vauxhall Insignia car involved in a three vehicle pile up on the A627M this morning (6).

Fire crews from Chadderton and Heywood, police and ambulance attended the motorway between Junction 2 Slattocks and Junction 1 Broadway just after 8.30pm.

A Mini was involved in the collision, as was a dark coloured Ford Ka which failed to stop at the scene.

Crews were cutting the roof off the Insignia to free the driver as the Oldham Chronicle went to press.

The outside lane was closed to traffic causing delays but no one else was believed to have been injured.



Two trapped as car overturns

TWO people were trapped in their car after it skidded on ice and overturned in Greenfield yesterday.

It happened on the on the A635 Holmfirth Road as the car was heading towards Oldham.

The vehicle left the road and ended up in a field at 10.30am. Fire crews from Mossley rescued the pair and made the vehicle safe.

There were no serious injuries but a woman was given oxygen at the scene.

In a separate incident shortly before, a car spun 360 degrees as it skidded on ice, but no one was injured.

Mossley fire crew commander Mark O’Neill said: “The weather up there was treacherous. It was blizzard-like conditions.”