Man arrested after crash seriously injures five people in Blackpool on Christmas Day

A Mercedes CLA 220 left the carriageway before colliding with a wall on Common Edge Road at around 10.30pm on Monday (December 25).

The Mercedes had been travelling from St Annes.

Three boys - aged 13, 15 and 17 - a 17-year-old girl and a woman in her 30s suffered "multiple serious injuries," police said.

Officers said their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening at his time.

A 42-year-old man from St Annes was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, driving with excess alcohol and failing to provide a specimen for analysis.

He remained in custody for questioning on Tuesday (December 26). Sgt Paul McCurrie, from Lancashire Police's Road Policing Unit, said: "This collision has left a number of people with some very serious injuries.

"Thankfully, those injuries don't appear to be life-threatening at this time.

"Our enquiries to establish the full circumstances of what led to the collision are ongoing.

"I would ask any witnesses or anybody with any CCTV, dashcam or doorbell footage which would help our investigation to contact the police as soon as possible."

Anyone with information has been asked to call 101 or email [email protected], quoting log number 987 of December 25.