Five teenagers injured after car somersaults into ditch

FIVE teenagers needed hospital treatment after their car left an A1 slip road, somersaulted and landed in a ditch.

The three male and two female occupants had to be cut free by firefighters.

The green Peugeot 206 left the road near the Tranent turn off at 3.30am yesterday.

It landed on its side. Firefighters had to cut the roof off the vehicle to free those in the car and pieces of the body were left strewn around the field.

The two most seriously injured passengers had multiple fractures and were taken to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on spineboards.

The female driver also suffered "multiple" injuries and her condition was described as being "serious".

Two others were described as "walking wounded" but also went to hospital by ambulance.

A Lothian and Borders Fire Service spokeswoman said: "We attended a road traffic incident near Dolphingstone around 3.30am where a car had lost control coming off a slip road.

"It somersaulted and landed in a ditch. The car had five occupants, three male and two female, and had been travelling along the A1 when it happened."