A MAN was taken to hospital after being cut free from his car following an accident.

Thomas Price, aged 71, of Westby Grove, was lifted from his Rover 100 car after firefighters cut off the roof.

He was taken to hospital with whiplash injuries and a cut to his head and was released after treatment.

His car was in collision with this Renault GT Turbo at the junction of Crompton Way and Archer Avenue in Tonge Fold.

The Renault driver David Evans, 27, of Southleigh Drive, Bolton, was treated for whiplash.

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