Overview
- The M6 northbound between Junctions 14 and 15 in Staffordshire, which closed Thursday after an Iveco hit a broken-down Mercedes, left the van driver with potentially life-changing injuries.
- Fire crews used hydraulic cutters to free the trapped driver and an air ambulance team supported care on the way to Royal Stoke University Hospital.
- Staffordshire Police opened an investigation into the northbound crash and asked drivers with dashcam footage to come forward quoting incident 175 of April 30.
- A separate southbound crash between Junctions 10 and 9 involved a car and a van and sent four people to hospital, including a boy taken to Birmingham Children's Hospital.
- Another collision on the M40 near Oxford involved a car and a motorcycle and Thames Valley Police said the rider was taken to hospital after a full southbound closure.