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A66 Crash: Inquests Set to Open Into Deaths of Seven People in Horror Crash
Inquests will examine the police pursuit crash and a separate house fire as detectives probe whether the deaths are linked.
- On Thursday, the Teesside Coroner opened inquests into seven deaths from an August 22 A66 collision near Middlesbrough, including police officers PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38.
- Blades and Clough died when their marked police vehicle was struck head-on by a Volkswagen Passat traveling against traffic at South Bank; the pursuit had been aborted before the collision.
- Separately, a murder investigation began after a house fire in Grangetown on Wednesday killed seven-year-old Valentina Foster and her aunt Natalie McDonald; two men, aged 23 and 31, remain in custody.
- Cleveland Police stated they "cannot rule out any links to wider organised crime at this time," while Superintendent Emily Harrison urged the public to contact authorities with any information.
- A fundraiser established by the Cleveland Police Federation for the officers' families has attracted over £1m in donations, as communities across Teesside continue to leave tributes at the collision scene.
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Harrowing details of the injuries suffered by the two police officers killed in the fatal A66 crash last weekend have been revealed for the first time as inquests open into the cause of the tragic deaths. Pc Matthew Blades, 37, and Pc Tom Clough, 38, died in a head-on collision on the A66 near Middlesbrough early on Saturday morning.This morning, inquests into their deaths were opened and adjourned at Teesside Coroner’s Court.In short, consecuti…
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Mum of A66 crash death says bring 'cars and quads' for 'send-off he deserves'
The mum of one of the five men killed in the horror crash that saw the deaths of two police officers has urged his friends to bring "bikes, jeeps, cars and quads" to give him "the send-off he deserves"
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