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 taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle with serious injuries.
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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.”
