Two children among five dead in M6 crash

Five people, including two children, have been killed in a crash on the M6.

The two-car collision involved a Toyota and a Skoda and happened on the northbound motorway, past Tebay services in Cumbria, at 4.04pm on Tuesday, police said.

Four people - a man, a woman and two children from Glasgow - who were travelling in the Toyota were pronounced dead at the scene.

The Skoda driver, a man from Cambridgeshire, also died in the crash.

Cumbria Constabulary said a third child in the Toyota was airlifted to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle with serious injuries.

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Four fire engines from nearby Penrith, Kendal and Shap were mobilised, and fire crews remained at the scene for several hours.

Driver Chris Isles, 58, captured a picture near to the scene after getting held up in the traffic tailback and at first thought it was a vehicle fire.

Mr Isles, from Kirkoswald, said: "It's terrible. It never crossed my mind that there would have been five people killed. It's awful."

A stretch of the M6 northbound between J36 and J39 was closed following the crash but reopened fully in the early hours of Wednesday.

A force spokesperson said: "The families of those involved are being supported by specially trained officers."

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