IN BRIEF : Minibus and army lorry in fatal crash
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The other six occupants were taken to Salisbury District Hospital where one was said to have major injuries and three to be seriously injured; two had relatively minor injuries. All eight had been wearing seatbelts. Two members of the Territorial Army 35 Signal Regiment based in Sutton Coldfield were in the lorry and had leg injuries.
It took rescue crews two hours to free those trapped in the vehicles. A hospital spokesman said last night that
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