Injured drivers cut free from crash cars

the damaged vehicles after the crash in Delph

A country road was closed for hours and four people taken to hospital after a serious crash.

The accident happened in an isolated moorland area at the Delph Lane, Huddersfield Road junction. The force of the collision pushed one car across the road into a stone wall, while the other came to rest on the verge.

Fire fighters arrived to find passengers in one car - a woman aged 41 and her 10-year-old son - at the roadside being treated by paramedics. The two drivers, one a man in his forties and an 81-year-old man, had to be cut from their cars.

The 81 year old suffered a suspected punctured lung and was rushed to hospital by air ambulance. The road remained closed while police examined the scene.

Watch manager Philip Courtnell, from Oldham Community Fire Station, said: “Fire-fighters stabilised the vehicles and cut the roof off one so we could put one driver on a long board.

“We cut the door off the second car so we could put the driver on a long board before he was handed to paramedics.”