ALL lanes have reopened after the M40 was closed northbound between J8 for Wheatley and J9 for Bicester.

Routes were closed for about two hours today following reports of an overturned car.

Police were called to the scene of a serious road traffic collision just after 3pm.

An elderly man and a woman were both injured.

The woman was flown to the John Radcliffe hospital by air ambulance, according to a South Central Ambulance spokeswoman.

It is not known if the male patient was taken to hospital.

The road was close northbound but reopened about 7pm.