A PARAGLIDER is being treated in hospital after crash-landing on a road near Pendle Hill tonight.
Lancashire Police said the man, who was flying a non-motorised hand glider, received arm and back injuries in the incident, which happened around 6.30pm.
Paramedics attended to the man at the scene. He was later taken by a North West Air Ambulance helicopter to Royal Blackburn Hospital.
A police spokesman said: "He overshot his landing area and ended up coming down on the road.
"We closed the road while the air ambulance took him to hospital."
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