Six dead after head-on crash

Updated 23.55 Sat Mar 08 2008
Keywords: crash, Gloucestershire

Two children and their aunt have been left fighting for their lives after a head-on car crash killed six people.

A nine-year-old girl, a 10-year-old boy and their aunt, 34, were in a critical condition after the "horrific" accident on the A429 between Moreton-in-Marsh and Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire.

A nine-year-old girl, a 10-year-old boy and their aunt, 34, were in a critical condition after the "horrific" accident on the A429 between Moreton-in-Marsh and Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire

The children's grandparents were among the dead, Gloucestershire police have confirmed.

Their grandfather, 53, died at the scene, while their grandmother, 61, who was in the front passenger seat, died early today.

All five people in the Passat are thought to be from Stow-on-the-Wold.

Four people in a Peugeot 306 that was trying to overtake a Kia Sedona at the time of the crash also died at the scene.

They were a 35-year-old man, a 31-year-old woman, and a 15-year-old girl, all from Moreton-in-Marsh, and a 20-year-old man from Chipping Norton.

Police said the boy was being treated at Bristol's Frenchay hospital for head injuries, and the girl at Bristol Children's Hospital for abdominal injuries.

Their aunt was receiving treatment for chest injuries at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

Superintendent Jerry Foster of Gloucestershire police said: "This is the worst case of loss of life in a single incident on Gloucestershire's roads for many, many years."

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