A WOMAN was rescued after a car flipped on its roof following a crash in Chadderton yesterday.

Emergency services were sent to Broadway in Chadderton at around 6pm after a four-vehicle collision.

Five fire engines were sent to the incident and crews used cutting equipment to rescue a woman from a car before she was taken to hospital.

Four patients were taken to hospital in total, the North West Ambulance reported, including a woman in her 20s, a man, a teenage girl and a four-year-old child.

A Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said: “At approximately 6pm on Tuesday, October 26, five fire engines from Hollins, Chadderton and Leigh attended a road traffic collision on Broadway in Chadderton.

“The collision involved four vehicles.

"Firefighters used specialist cutting equipment and lighting to rescue a woman from one vehicle, before her care was transferred to colleagues from the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS).

"Firefighters were in attendance for one hour and 30 minutes."