FREEZING fog and black ice caused car crash misery across Merseyside.
Many of the accidents happened in the early hours of Sunday after rain, a thaw and freeze formed black ice. Click here to see our map of grit bins across Merseyside.
A man was critically injured in a bad crash on the Formby Bypass, just after midnight on Sunday.
Cutting gear was used to remove the roof of the car, which crashed near the Weld Blundell Public House.
He was taken by ambulance to Southport and Formby District Hospital with severe head injuries, spinal injuries, internal bleeding and multiple lacerations to the upper body.
Three other people were released from the car including a man, 49, suffering from minor lacerations, chest injuries and shock; a 46-year-old man with a fractured collar bone, multiple body lacerations and shock and a woman, 34, with cuts, chest injuries and shock.
At 2.12am on Sunday, two cars crashed between Junctions 6 and 7 on the Liverpool-bound carriageway of the M62 and saw six people, including two children, taken to Whiston hospital.
Firefighters gave oxygen to a man who was suffering from back and leg injuries and a passing motorist stopped to give first aid.
Shortly afterwards, a man, aged 36, crashed into the barrier on the opposite lane between Junctions 5 and 6. He was treated for abdominal injuries.
