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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Geneva Abdul and Geraldine McKelvie

Two police officers killed in North Yorkshire crash named

A number of police cars and vans parked on the carriageway in front of an incident tent
Police officers at the scene of the crash on the A66 in South Bank, near Middlesbrough. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

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 Teesside.

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