A transporter carrying army vehicles was involved in the crash
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A 60-year-old man arrested in connection with a rush-hour motorway pile-up that killed five people has been released on bail.
The man, who comes from the London area, was one of those injured in the crash between Junctions 19 and 20 on the M1 on Wednesday morning.
Two people are still in a serious condition in hospital.
The accident happened after 11 vehicles collided on Wednesday morning, closing one of the UK's busiest motorways in both directions.
Three of the victims of the crash were identified by police yesterday.
Daniel Bradley, 21, of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, was killed as he
travelled in the passenger seat of a blue Iveco van.
The others were a driver of a white Vauxhall van, Wayne Buckley, 44, of
Ossett, West Yorkshire, and Christopher Green, 29, of Sutton in Ashfield,
Nottinghamshire, who was driving a white Citroen Dispatch van.
Paul Evans and Craig
Mears, both aged in their 30s and hailing from Great Wyrley, near Cannock in Staffordshire, were named locally as the two other victims.
Police investigations have confirmed the first collision was between a dark red Honda Civic and a tank transporter on the northbound carriageway at about 0730 BST.
The car had been travelling from London while the transporter and another similar vehicle had joined the M1 at Junction 15.
Four people died at the scene when the transporter jack-knifed and catapulted three armoured vehicles into oncoming traffic.
The lorry was transporting armoured vehicles returning from the conflict in Iraq to Catterick in North Yorkshire from Marchwood in Hampshire.
Two people were airlifted to hospitals in Birmingham, where one later died.
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