Two left men left seriously injured as McLaren car smashes into house

23 December 2023 , 17:27

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Both men were taken to hospital (Image: Getty Images)

Two men have been seriously injured after a McLaren car smashed into a house and caught fire.

The car smashed into a lamppost, before ploughing into a home in Heyhouses Lane, St Annes, Lancashire at approximately 2.35am on Saturday. Both the car and the house caught fire, which was extinguished by firefighters, Lancashire Constabulary said. Two men, who were inside the car, experienced serious injuries and were taken to hospital

One man is in a critical but stable condition, while the second is in a serious but stable condition. Nobody in the house was injured.

Sergeant Tom Malley, from the force's roads policing unit, said: "As a result of this collision two men are in hospital with serious injuries and my thoughts are with their loved ones at this time. Work is ongoing to establish the full circumstances of what led to the collision. I would ask any witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage which captured the McLaren in the lead-up to the collision to contact the police as soon as possible."

Also in Lancashire, back in October, it was reported that a delivery driver inhaled laughing gas at the wheel and "wiped out" his teenage passenger, when he crashed his van into a metal barrier. 24-year-old Cameron Hughes was also using his mobile phone to stream music and access Snapchat seconds before the crash at around 65mph in July in Huncoat, Lancashire.

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The car crashed into a lamppost and then a home in Heyhouses Lane, St Annes, at about 2.35am on Saturday (google)

His passenger, family friend Bonney Rae Barrow, 15, was rushed to Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and later transferred to Wythenshawe Hospital where she was placed on life support but died just before midnight the next day. Hughes, of Haddington Drive, Blackley, north Manchester, previously pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving at Preston Crown Court. He was jailed for seven and a half years.

Sentencing, Judge Heather Lloyd said: “This was quite a shocking piece of driving and a young 15-year-old life has been needlessly wiped out. It is a miracle that no other person was wiped out, including yourself. This was a tragedy waiting to happen.”

Charlie Duffield