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09/03/2009
Five Dead After Head-On Crash
A six-year-old girl is among the five people who died in a car crash in Merseyside on Sunday.
The girl died along with three woman, in a Vauxhall Corsa after it crashed head-on with a Renault Megane in the Wirral.
The driver of the Megane also died.
Corsa driver Ann Hargreaves, 71, of Bromborough, her sister Linda Wood, 59, of Eastham, and Mrs Wood's granddaughter Olivia Wood, six, died.
Joan Roden-Jones, 64, of Wrexham, and the Megane driver, 73, also died.
Ms Roden-Jones was also a passenger in the Corsa.
It is understood one of the cars veered off the link road to the M53 motorway and hit a wall before it rebounded head-on into the other car.
Ambulance officials said the girl, two of the women and the man were pronounced dead at the scene of the smash in Poulton just before midday.
The other victim was taken to nearby Arrowe Park Hospital with multiple injuries but died later.
Inspector Dave Corcoran, of Merseyside Police, said: "The families of the victims have now been informed. Our thoughts are with them at this time.
"We would ask anyone who witnessed this incident to make contact with us."
(JM/BMcC)
The girl died along with three woman, in a Vauxhall Corsa after it crashed head-on with a Renault Megane in the Wirral.
The driver of the Megane also died.
Corsa driver Ann Hargreaves, 71, of Bromborough, her sister Linda Wood, 59, of Eastham, and Mrs Wood's granddaughter Olivia Wood, six, died.
Joan Roden-Jones, 64, of Wrexham, and the Megane driver, 73, also died.
Ms Roden-Jones was also a passenger in the Corsa.
It is understood one of the cars veered off the link road to the M53 motorway and hit a wall before it rebounded head-on into the other car.
Ambulance officials said the girl, two of the women and the man were pronounced dead at the scene of the smash in Poulton just before midday.
The other victim was taken to nearby Arrowe Park Hospital with multiple injuries but died later.
Inspector Dave Corcoran, of Merseyside Police, said: "The families of the victims have now been informed. Our thoughts are with them at this time.
"We would ask anyone who witnessed this incident to make contact with us."
(JM/BMcC)
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