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'Amazing' escape after car crushed by lorry on A1

David Spereall
BBC News Yorkshire
Richmond Fire Station/Facebook A black car wedged between a lorry carrying steel poles and a motorway crash barrier. The car's roof is crushed and the vehicle is effectively in mid-air at an angle. Fire crews wearing orange and brown overalls observe the scene.Richmond Fire Station/Facebook
The incident happened on the A1(M) southbound near Catterick, the fire service said

The driver of a car which was dragged 100 metres along the central barrier of the A1(M) by a lorry "amazingly" escaped with only minor injuries, firefighters have said.

The car ended up wedged in mid-air between the HGV and the barrier following the crash, which happened on the southbound carriageway of the motorway near Catterick, North Yorkshire, at about 09:15 BST on Monday.

In a Facebook post, Richmond Fire Station, which sent a crew to the scene, said: "Amazingly minor injuries but could have been so much worse."

The post said the car had been dragged 100m (328ft) along the barrier after the collision.

Richmond Fire Station/Facebook A badly damaged black car is wedged between the top of a concrete central road barrier and the side of a lorry carrying heavy metal piping.Richmond Fire Station/Facebook

The fire service said that traffic was moving again by the late morning but warned "closures maybe required later" to allow the vehicles to be recovered.

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