Children among five killed in ‘wrong-way’ M6 crash

Five people, including two children, have been killed in a crash on the M6 which police say may have involved a car travelling in the wrong direction.

A 42-year-old man and 33-year-old woman from Glasgow, travelling in a Toyota with two boys, aged 15 and seven, were pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of a Skoda, a 40-year-old man from Cambridgeshire, also died.

Cumbria Police said it had been called out to reports of a Skoda travelling southbound on the northbound carriageway.