Two cars catch fire following collision on A41 at Bletchley
Two cars caught fire following a collision on the A41 at Bletchley near Market Drayton on Friday evening.
The collision happened on the A41 northbound towards Whitchurch at just after 6.30pm and involved three vehicles.
Firefighters from Hodnet and Market Drayton were sent to the scene.
Crews extinguished the fires using hosereel jets with firefighters wearing breathing apparatus.
A Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: "The rescue pump from Market Drayton was mobilised by fire control, to a report of a car on fire on the A41 at Tern Hill near Market Drayton.
Whilst on route to the incident the crew were informed that the Police had arrived on scene, and that the incident involved two cars fully involved in fire with a third in close proximity which was a hybrid fuel vehicle. On receipt of this information, the Officer in Charge transmitted an assistance message of, “Make Pumps Two for water and staffing” whilst still on route to the incident.
"This resulted in fire control mobilising the rescue pump from Hodnet. On arrival at the scene the crew were confronted with a three car RTC (Road Traffic Collision), with two saloon cars fully involved in fire. Four fighters wearing breathing apparatus were immediately tasked with extinguishing the fires, utilising two high pressure hose reel jets.
"On arrival of the rescue pump from Hodnet, they were tasked with providing additional water supplies to the Market Drayton appliance to assist in firefighting. Thankfully through rapid and assertive firefighting, the crews were able to prevent the fire spreading to the hybrid vehicle."
All the occupants of the vehicles involved had managed to get out of their vehicles, and had received no serious injuries, but were shocked.
An ambulance and incident officer from West Midlands Ambulance Service attended the scene and gave precautionary check ups to those involved.
The A41 was closed for several hours in both directions, between the Tern Hill roundabout and the Sandford bends, by officers from West Mercia Police whilst firefighters worked to extinguish the fires, to allow for recovery work and to allow for the damaged road surface to be assessed and repaired by the Highways department.
