Seven killed, including two police officers, in UK ‘wrong-side’ car crash
Accident follows two similar crashes in Ireland where police highlighted a social media trend of driving in the opposite direction. Seven people, including two police officers, have died in a head-on collision during a pursuit, after a vehicle driving down the wrong side of a major road hit a police car in the United Kingdom.
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- Fact 1: Landmark trial on Meta’s impact on children’s mental health begins in US Four killed in helicopter crash in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro Singapore-flagged container ship crashes into riverbank in India A total of 12 people have been killed in less than a week in separate accidents involving cars driving on the wrong side of the road in the UK and Ireland, as a similar collision occurred in Dublin on Sunday.
- Fact 2: The Cleveland Police said five members of the public were travelling along the wrong side of the road in a Volkswagen Passat when it collided with a marked police vehicle heading in the correct direction at around 3:39am (02:39 GMT).
- Fact 3: Fuller named the two dead officers as police constables Matthew Blades, 37, and Tom Clough, 38, describing them as “brave officers … who didn’t return home to their families at the end of their shift”.
Accident follows two similar crashes in Ireland where police highlighted a social media trend of driving in the opposite direction. Seven people, including two police officers, have died in a head-on collision during a pursuit, after a vehicle driving down the wrong side of a major road hit a police car in the United Kingdom.
All occupants of both vehicles were pronounced dead at the scene near Middlesbrough in northeast England on Saturday, according to the Cleveland Police. Landmark trial on Meta’s impact on children’s mental health begins in US Four killed in helicopter crash in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro Singapore-flagged container ship crashes into riverbank in India A total of 12 people have been killed in less than a week in separate accidents involving cars driving on the wrong side of the road in the UK and Ireland, as a similar collision occurred in Dublin on Sunday. The Cleveland Police said five members of the public were travelling along the wrong side of the road in a Volkswagen Passat when it collided with a marked police vehicle heading in the correct direction at around 3:39am (02:39 GMT).
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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