10:10am Wednesday 4th November 2009
By Jon Reeve
A MOTORIST had to be cut free from his car after two vehicles were involved in a crash with a lorry on a Hampshire motorway.
Police are warning drivers they could face 80-minute queues, with tailbacks stretching up to eight miles along the M27.
Two cars were involved in a crash with an articulated lorry just before the exit slip at Junction 3 at 7.41am.
At least two lanes of the westbound carriageway were completely blocked for more than an hour as fire crews from St Mary's cut free the driver of a Skoda Octavia.
Although the full extent of the drivers' injuries is not yet known, but it is understood neither the man in the Octavia or the driver of the other car - a Ford Focus - suffered life-threatening injuries.
Recovery teams have now cleared the vehicles from the motorway, but there are still lengthy queues as traffic gets back to normal.
Queuing had stretched as far back as junction 7 at Hedge End on the westbound carriageway, with police warning it could take 80 minutes to complete the journey that would normally take around ten minutes.
Just minutes after the first crash, there was an unrelated collision on the westbound carriageway between junctions 9 for Fareham and 8 at Hamble, at 7.49am..
Two cars were involved in a collision near to the Hamble River bridge.
It is not clear whether anyone was injured in the incident, but emergency services were on the scene to clear the vehicles to the hard shoulder within around half an hour.
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