Young driver's lucky escape after his car ends up on its roof in a Wigan motorway smash

The red Mini and the much bigger vehicle crashed on the southbound carriageway of the M6 at Orrell shortly after 6pm on Monday February 13.

A crew from Wigan fire station briefly closed all three lanes while the upended car was righted, the occupant in his 20s having already got out of it before they arrived.

A spokesman said that the young man did not appear to have been seriously hurt although he was handed over to paramedics for a check-up and any treatment.

It is believed the driver of the lorry, who was in his 40s, was unharmed in the incident.