A man has died and a woman is in a critical condition following a crash involving a car and a lorry which closed the M1 for more than nine hours.
At around 4am on Friday morning (October 4) a Volvo XC90 and a HGV lorry were travelling on the M1 northbound, near to Junction 28 when they crashed.
Emergency services attended and a 70-year-old man, the driver of the Volvo, died at the scene.
A woman who was the passenger was taken to hospital where she remains in a critical condition, Derbyshire police confirmed.
The road was closed for a number of hours whilst emergency services and Highways England worked to carry out their investigation and clear the scene.
The road re-opened at 1.20pm on Friday afternoon.
A police spokesman said the crash happened in lane one of the M1, which is a section of Smart motorway.
But they added that this factor had nothing to do with the crash happening.
No arrests have been made.
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