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Shotton Colliery crash: Man arrested after two women die | |
(about 11 hours later) | |
A man has been arrested in connection with the deaths of two women drivers in a three-car crash in County Durham. | |
Rebecca Learoyd, 18, from Shinwell Crescent, Thornley, and Anne Peachey, 60, of Kell Crescent, Sherburn Hill, died in the crash on Sunday. | |
The women were in separate cars travelling along Front Street in Shotton Colliery, Peterlee. | |
The 22-year-old driver of a third vehicle was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. | |
Police said Miss Learoyd was driving a Fiat 500 and Mrs Peachey was at the wheel of a Citroen Xsara. | |
A 19-year-old woman passenger in the Fiat, from Thornley, suffered serious injuries and is in a critical condition in Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary. | |
Two passengers in the Citroen, Mrs Peachey's 33-year-old daughter Joanne and her 13-year-old granddaughter, Adele Harland, suffered non-serious injuries. | |
The arrested man, from Wingate, who was uninjured, was later bailed pending further inquiries. | |
Sgt Phil Grieve, of Durham Police, said: "It is vital we establish where all three vehicles had been travelling from and the manner in which they were being driven. | |
"If anyone else saw them on the roads in that area in the minutes leading up the accident I would ask them to contact us as soon as possible." |
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