\n Police and firefighters were called to Milton Crescent and Tennyson Road, Farnworth, at around 11am on the morning of Saturday May 2 to reports of a crash.\n<\/p>\n
\n Officers have now announced that a woman was taken to hospital with serious injuries while a man in his 30s was arrested.\n<\/p>\n
\n A Greater Manchester Police spokesperson said: \u201cOne woman has been taken to hospital with serious injuries where she remains for treatment.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cA man in his 30s was arrested at the scene on suspicion of drink driving and causing serious injury by careless driving.\n<\/p>\n
\n Police and firefighters were called to Tennyson Road and Milton Crescent (Image: Google Maps)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cTo help understand the full circumstances, officers are now appealing for anyone who may have witnessed the incident to come forward.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey are keen to speak to anyone who may have CCTV, dashcam or mobile phone footage of the incident or of the moments leading up to the incident.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Firefighters from Farnworth and Leigh Fire Stations were also called to the scene and helped to rescue the injured woman.\n<\/p>\n
\n They said that another injured person \u201cself-rescued\u201d from one of the cars<\/a> before they arrived.\n<\/p>\n \n A Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: \u201cTwo fire engines from Farnworth fire station, along with the enhanced rescue unit from Leigh, promptly attended the scene<\/a> which involved a collision<\/a> between two cars<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cOne casualty self-rescued before the arrival of the fire service, while crews extricated a female casualty from another vehicle who was then handed over to North West Ambulance Service and taken to hospital.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cThe road was closed by Greater Manchester Police while firefighters worked to make the area safe.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cFirefighters were at the scene for approximately one hour and five minutes.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n Police have appealed for anyone with any information to call them on 0161 856 4741 quoting log 1202 of 02\/05\/2026.\n<\/p>\n \n Members of the public can also call independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police and firefighters were called to Milton Crescent and Tennyson Road, Farnworth, at around 11am on the morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-564337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}