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Fire crews free woman from vehicle after pile-up
Western Gazette
|January 08, 2026
A WOMAN had to be cut free from a car after a four-vehicle pileup on a Somerset road.
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Fire crews were called to the village of Montacute, four miles from Yeovil, late on Friday, January 2.
They found a woman trapped inside one of the vehicles and had to use cutting gear to release her.
This story is from the January 08, 2026 edition of Western Gazette.
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