AN elderly woman was airlifted to hospital after being involved in a crash between a bus and motorhome.

It is understood the mobile home collided with the Holmeswood Coach as it turned left on to Accrington Road, heading out of Whalley.

The incident left the motorhome with a large hole in its side while the bus, believed to have been heading along Accrington Road, came to a rest at the entrance to Spring Wood.

The injured woman, who is in her 70s, was travelling in the mobile home with her husband, who was also taken to hospital along with two child passengers.

She received some initial treatment for suspected head, femur and arm injuries at the scene before being moved into an air ambulance and taken to Preston Royal Hospital. The road was closed from its junction with the A59 to the Burnley Road junction, while police blocked access to the road from the centre of Whalley.

Police officers on the scene said an investigation had been opened into the accident and they were not yet sure how it had happened.

Nobody at Holmeswood Coaches was available for comment last night There have been a number of accidents around the set of traffic lights in recent month.

And a campaign was recently launched to have the junction made safer.

As reported in the Lancashire Telegraph last month, the family of Hannah Flynn, 20, called for changes to the ‘poorly designed’ junction. That was after after Hannah almost died in a nearby accident.