A MAN was impaled on a wooden stake after the car he was travelling in veered off the M62 near to Rainhill and over an embankment.
The 25-year-old from Birmingham was one of four men in a red Peugeot 309 travelling on the Manchester-bound carriageway, just past the Rainhill Stoops junction, when the accident took place at about 1.25am on Saturday, September 4.
No other vehicle was involved in the incident which it is believed may have been caused by a tyre blow-out.
Firefighters who attended the scene took nearly an hour to free the injured back-seat passenger from the stake and he was taken to Whiston Hospital suffering from serious head and chest injuries. He is now in a critical but stable position.
The other three men suffered minor injuries and were treated at the scene.
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