EMERGENCY services are on the scene of a four vehicle crash on the motorway

Police have closed two lanes of the M27 after a Skoda, Renault, Vauxhall and Citroen, collided near junction five between the Hedge End and Eastleigh turn off on the westbound carriageway.

Firefighters are on the scene cutting a person free from a people carrier and police have closed the inside and middle lanes following the incident at just before 9am.

Two people have been injured though their injuries are not thought to be serious.

Queues stretch back to junction eight for Bursledon as police wait for recovery of three of the vehicles.

South Central Ambulance Service said they had sent an ambulance and rapid response car and assessed four people at the scene.

Two were uninjured and one was treated at the scene for minor injuries.

A fourth person, a woman, has sustained a possible back injury.