FIVE people were taken to hospital after a lorry collided with four cars, a van and a cyclist before smashing head-on into another lorry at the temporary traffic lights in Folly Hill on Wednesday morning.

The injured, four men and a woman, were taken by ambulance to Frimley Park Hospital where they were treated for minor injuries before being released the same day.

Castle Street was closed from around 7.45 am - the second time in a week after a less serious accident at the lights last Wednesday morning.

The closure caused traffic chaos around Farnham before Castle Street re-opened at around 11.30 am.

The Herald understands that the vehicle was coming down Folly Hill and the other vehicles were travelling in the opposite direction through the lights, which are in place while a new crash barrier is installed.

The traffic lights are rapidly becoming an accident black spot, with several people reporting near misses as they round the bend travelling up the hill.

Warning signs are in place, but people are still being surprised by the stationary line of traffic which confronts them when the lights are at red.