Two cut free from Diggle smash

MANGLED . . . the wreck yesterday

TWO women were cut free from a car smash the A62 near Diggle.

They were trapped in an Audi A6 which was involved in a crash with a BMW X5 on Huddersfield Road shortly before 5pm yesterday.

Firefighters from Mossley, Hollins and Ashton were called to the scene close to Stanedge Road.

The road was closed and Watch Commander Graham Singleton, from Mossley, said: “Because it was a fast road and they had quite a severe impact, we had to cut the roof off the Audi to get the front-seat passenger out of the car.

“We then had to remove the side of the vehicle to get the rear passenger out because, on impact, the sill had wrapped round her foot.

“Getting the roof off probably took 10 minutes and getting the side off another 10 minutes. But peeling the sill back so it did not damage her foot took quite a while.”

The woman was taken to hospital with a suspected broken collar bone while the front-seat passenger is said to have complained of chest pains.

The Audi driver and a woman and two children in the BMW had managed to escape their vehicles when the fire service arrived.