A man has died and four other people injured in a horror smash on the A59 opposite the entrance to BAE Systems in Lancashire.
The crash involved a BMW 5 series, a Peugeot and an HGV on a bend on Whalley Road in Samlesbury at around 1.20pm on Thursday.
A section of the road was closed at the Swallow Hotel until 6.06pm while accident investigators remained at the scene.
The male driver of the BMW died and a female passenger - from Blackpool - was taken by air ambulance to Royal Preston Hospital (RPH) with head and leg injuries. Both are thought to be in their early 20s.
It took firefighters half-an-hour to cut the woman free from the wreckage.
The BMW was believed to be travelling on the wrong side of the road when it crashed.
A Peugeot, carrying two women, crashed into the back of the BMW and they were taken to RPH suffering minor injuries.
The driver of the truck, thought to be in his late 40s and from Bolton, was taken to the Royal Blackburn Infirmary with minor injuries.
The vehicle, which is used to carry steel, was empty at the time of the crash.
A Lancashire ambulance service spokesman said: "There were quite a lot of paramedics there treating them at the time."
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