Monday, 16 October 2006, 12:42 UK
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Two dead in six vehicle M6 crash Two people have been end and two more left seriously injured after a six vehicle crash on the M6 motorway.
Cheshire Police said two articulated lorries and a transit van collided on the northbound carriageway near junction 19 and Knutsford services.
They smashed through the central reservation colliding with another articulated lorry, a van and a car.
A police spokeswoman said most of the motorway between junctions 19 and 18 is closed apart from two lanes northbound.
Drivers are warned to expect long tailbacks.
The two people who are seriously injured were taken to Leighton Hospital, Crewe, while others were treated at the scene. ========================================================================
What a dreadful and tragic accident.
Not just for the "original" parties to the accident - the two artics and the transit van, and not just for the poor emergency services who have to "clean up the mess" but because of the totally inadequate central reservation barriers we seem have inflicted upon us in this country.
I have noticed from travelling in France that the new pay motorways have very substantial concrete central barriers (in the shape of an inverted 'Y') and at such a height that cars can use their full headlights at night without dazzling drivers on the opposite carriageway.
"They smashed through the central reservation colliding with another articulated lorry, a van and a car"
So this part of the accident was entirely preventable. Is this a money thing? -- Mr X
