Police officers killed in wrong-way crash mourned in 'unimaginable loss'

PC Matthew Blades, PC Tom Clough and five young people were killed when a car drove the wrong way on the A66 and struck the police vehicle.

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Police officers killed in wrong-way crash mourned in 'unimaginable loss'

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A car was travelling the wrong way down the A66 near Middlesbrough before it struck a police vehicle heading in opposite direction.

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Police officers killed in wrong-way crash mourned in 'unimaginable loss'

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Two police officers killed in North Yorkshire crash named

Watchdog launches inquiry into collision in which seven people died involving police car and another vehicle Two police officers who died in a car crash near Middlesbrough in the early hours of Saturday have been named. Police constables Matthew Blades and Tom Clough were among seven people killed after their marked police car collided with a Volkswagen Passat travelling the wrong way along the A66 in North Yorkshir…