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Helicopter crashes onto motorway and hits car

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A helicopter crashed on a Madrid motorway ring road on Friday morning, hitting a car and leaving three people injured, the city’s emergency services said.

Two people were in the helicopter, one was able to exit on foot, while the other was rescued from the wreckage by firefighters, an emergency service spokesperson told Reuters.

Both were injured in the crash, as was the driver of the car hit by the helicopter, emergency services said.

One of the crash survivors had a light head injury, another seems to have a broken femur and the third suffered light injuries, the spokesperson said.

El Mundo newspaper showed pictures of yellow wreckage near the pillar of a motorway bridge.

The accident has been linked to heavy wind thought to have destabilised the chopper.

Aviation news website On The Wings of Aviation reported: ‘The Enstrom 280FX Shark helicopter with registration F-HPUX that was participating in the European Rotors fair that was taking place in Ifema has crashed on the M40 in Madrid shortly after taking off.

‘The helicopter has fallen at kilometer point 5,600 of the inner ring.’

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