POLICE have named two of the three victims that were killed in a horror M8 crash. 

David Paton, 27, and Mark Downie, aged 31, died alongside another man, named locally as Manveer Benning, 27.

The alarm was raised early on Sunday morning after an Audi Q7 came off the motorway between Bishopton and Langbank.

Five other men were taken to hospital for treatment of serious but non-life threatening injuries.

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It is understood the Q7 was found overturned in a ditch, with the westbound carriageway being closed off by police as a probe of the crash site got underway.

Police later confirmed that a 35-year-old had been arrested in connection with road traffic offences following the incident.