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Second teenager dies after car accident

A second teenager has died following a car accident in Derbyshire.

The crash happened on the A632 Matlock Road in Kelstedge.

Liam Chapman, aged 16 from Clay Cross was taken to Queen's Medical Centre with serious injuries last Thursday (20 September).

He died in hospital yesterday.

Another 16-year-old also died in the accident last Thursday, a third teenager who was in the car survived.

Teenager dies following car crash

A 16-year old has died following a car crash in Derbyshire.

It happened on the A632 Matlock Rd near Ashover.

A blue Vauxhall Corsa was in collision with a silver Peugeot 206.

A 16-year old who was travelling in the Peugeot 206 died.

2 other males from the same car were taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.

One of them remains in a critical condition.

2 males from the Corsa were taken to Chesterfield Hospital with minor injuries.

Police are appealing for witnesses

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Two killed in car crash

Two men have died after a car crash in Shropshire.

The incident happened on the A442 between Hodnet and Peplow at 10.35pm on Monday evening.

"On arrival, crews found a car that had been badly damaged after it had collided with some trees.

“Sadly it quickly became apparent that the two men who had been travelling in the car had died. The doctor and two of the ambulances were stood down.

“There were two other cars at the crash site; both undamaged. Ambulance staff checked over the occupants but although shaken, no-one was hurt."

– West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman

Mother and daughter in hospital after hit and run

Police are looking for four men who ran from the scene of hit and run in which a mother and daughter were injured.

A 54-year-old woman and her 15-year-old daughter were hurt when the car they were travelling in was hit by another vehicle on Birchfield Road in Perry Barr at 6:45pm on Sunday evening.

The men - who are all believed to be Asian - were travelling in a green Honda Civic when it collided with a blue Toyota.

The mother suffered serious head injuries and is still in hospital, while her fifteen-year-old daughter was treated for minor injuries at the Birmingham Children's Hospital.

"We urgently want to trace these men; they ran from the scene of a serious collision without the slightest concern for a mum and young girl who lay injured."The four men are all believed to be of Asian origin and aged between 18- and 25-years-old. All will have obvious injuries, including facial cuts, and one will be missing a distinctive pair of blue-framed glasses with powerful lenses.

– PC Paul Brant, West Midlands Police

The car the men were travelling in was abandoned at the scene and police believe it was stolen. It's being forensically examined.

Police are appealing for anyone with information to contact them.

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