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Everything you need to know as car crashes off the M6 into water shutting motorway for over nine hours
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One casualty was rescued by firefighters
M6 closed for hours after car crashes into water near Greater Manchester
- A stretch of the M6 in Cheshire was closed for more than nine hours this morning (Sunday, March 29) after a car left the motorway and landed partially in water
- The serious crash was reported at around 12:40am between junction 19 for Knutsford and junction 18 for Middlewich and Holmes Chapel.
- Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service said they were responding to “a road traffic collision where a car has left the M6 south carriageway and come to rest on the edge of a brook with the rear of the vehicle partially in the water.”
- One casualty was rescued around 45 minutes later and handed over to paramedics. Their condition is not yet known.
- A fire service technician was deployed into the water to help rescue the casualty and stabilise the car, which was then winched to a fire engine.
- The carriageway was shut for more than nine hours whilst the vehicle was recovered and repairs carried out to the barriers before it eventually reopened at around 10:30am
- READ THE FULL STORY: M6 closure update: Motorway reopens vehicle overturns and goes into water in serious crash
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