TRAFFIC is backed up on the M6 on both carriageways this morning following two crashes.

A crash involving a car and a lorry on the northbound carriageway happened after 7am near to junction 18 for Middlewich and Holmes Chapel.

Lanes one and two were blocked until around 8am.

On the southbound carriageway, and overturned has caused two lanes to be closed between junction 19 for Knutsford and 18 and Middlewich and Holmes Chapel.

Lanes one and two remain closed.