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Arrests after baby girl injured in motorway crash

Google Googleview showing vehicles on the motorway with blue motorway signs overhead indicating the M65 route to Bunrley, Blackburn and Preston South and the M6 route to Lancaster and BlackpoolGoogle
A van driver crashed into three stationary vehicles at the M65 slip road off the M6

Two men have been arrested after a baby girl was seriously injured when a van struck three stationary vehicles on a motorway slip road before the driver and passenger fled the scene.

Their white Ford Transit van hit two cars and a HGV, at Junction 29 off the M6 northbound, at Bamber Bridge near Preston, at about 16:25 GMT on Friday, police said.

The baby, who was in one of the cars, was taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries.

A 39-year-old man, from Preston, has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and is currently in custody. A 42-year-old man from Blackburn, arrested over the same offence, has been bailed.

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