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Five killed after driving wrong way before crash 'identified by fingerprints'
(L-R) Makai Saddington, Theo Rae, Cole Robert Worthy, Michael Robert Cahill, Jakub Matusiak
TL;DR
- Five young people and two police officers died in a collision on the A66 in South Bank.
- The five young occupants of a Volkswagen Passat were identified by fingerprint analysis.
- The victims were aged between 17 and 23.
- Police officers PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough also died in the incident.
- The collision happened after a police pursuit of the Passat was aborted when it drove against traffic on the A66.
- The Passat then collided with a police vehicle not directly involved in the prior pursuit.