FIVE people were taken to hospital after they were involved in a car crash on one of East Lancashire’s most notorious roads.

A red Citroen Saxo and a white Ford Fiesta were in a head-on smash just after noon on Grane Road near Belthorn, leaving debris strewn across the road.

Six ambulances attended the scene, just before the Jackson Heights junction, and the police closed Eton Road and also part of Grane Road for around two hours.

Four adults and a child were taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital on boards and a stretcher.

Their conditions are not thought to be life threatening. It comes after two fatal accidents on the Haslingden to Blackburn road, which was once the subject of a Lancashire Telegraph campaign to make it safer, this year.

In April 21, a 34-year-old dad-of-three was killed when his car ploughed through three gardens and into a house. And on June 10, a former Blackburn Imam died after his black Chrysler Avenger careered off the road close to the start of Grane Road. Four days later a motorist was cut from her car in an accident involving four vehicles.

And the Belthorn councillor Doug Hayes said: “Grane Road has restrictions on it for speed.

“No-one is monitoring the road. Only when the Lancashire Telegraph is shouting about it will the police do spot checks.”

Grane Road was re-opened to traffic at 2pm once the debris and the cars were removed.