A TEENAGE driver is still "very poorly" after a head-on smash with another car.
Police say a Vauxhall Astra, being driven by 19-year-old Raza Khan, of Gilnow Road, Deane, was involved in a collision with an Audi cabriolet on the A675 Belmont Road, between Belmont and Horrocks Fold, just after 10pm on Saturday night.
Sgt Keith Young, of East Lancashire road policing unit at Accrington, said: "The male driver of the Astra received life-threatening head injuries and was taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital by air ambulance."
He has since been moved to Hope Hospital in Salford.
Three other passengers in the Astra, in their late teens, managed to release themselves from the wreckage.
The trio were treated at the Royal Bolton Hospital.
One of the boys is thought to have suffered a broken leg while the others suffered from facial injuries.
The driver of the Audi, 31-year-old Rajini Nayyar, of Wincanton Drive, Eagley, is being treated for a serious leg injuries, also at the Royal Bolton hospital.
Witnesses are asked to contact the road policing unit on 01254 353767.
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