British car crash kills six

LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) Two cars collided on a main road in northwestern England today, killing six people, police said.

All five people in one of the cars -- a 19-year-old man, a 21-year-old woman, two teenage girls and a baby -- were killed in the crash on the A6 road north of Penrith, a police spokesman said.

An elderly man driving the other car died. An elderly woman who was also in that car was taken to a Carlisle hospital and that her condition was very poor, the spokesman said.

The crash forced the closure of the road for several hours.

Police, who gave no information on the cause of the crash, appealed for witnesses to contact them.

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