Three dead, six injured in motorway crash

LONDON, Oct 20 (Reuters) A woman driver and her teenage passenger were among three people killed in a seven-vehicle motorway pile-up in northern England, police said today.

The 36-year-old woman and the 17-year-old boy, a back seat passenger, were killed instantly when their Vauxhall Cavalier left the carriageway and careered down an embankment, Humberside Police said.

The 52-year-old driver of a Honda CRV died in hospital after his vehicle overturned during the incident.

No further details of the victims have been released.

The crash, involving a lorry and six cars, happened on the M62 last night.

Six people sustained injuries in the accident, on a west-bound stretch of the motorway between junctions 35 and 36 at 6.45 local time yesterday, and were taken to Doncaster Royal Infirmary.

No details were released on the nature of their injuries.

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