A woman suffered chest injuries and had to be airlifted to hospital yesterday after the van she was travelling in crashed through a fence on the M55, near Blackpool.
The accident was one of three collisions that brought bank holiday traffic to a standstill on the M55 between Blackpool and Kirkham in the space of an hour.
Two lanes were closed westbound between junction 3 and 4 and one lane was shut on the eastbound carriageway following the incidents.
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The van in which the injured woman was travelling crashed near Wesham at about 3.20pm.
Just 30 minutes earlier firefighters were across the carriageway on the westbound side, dealing with a car that had set on fire.
And at 3.30pm four cars collided just a few hundreds further down the carriageway, with nobody injured.
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