A MAN was injured when a lorry rolled backward into him - trapping him against another waggon - at a Bolton transport depot.

Martin Jones, aged 38, was standing on the steps of a Leyland lorry talking to another driver when a Scania articulated waggon rolled into him. He was briefly trapped between the two vehicles after the accident outside the premises of William Hargreaves on the Raikes Lane Industrial Estate.

Mr Jones, of Hornby Street, Bury, suffered a broken leg.

He was detained in the Royal Bolton Hospital.

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