Five more arrested over crash that killed seven people including two police officers

A total of 17 people have now been arrested over Saturday’s crash in which car drove wrong way along dual carriageway Five more people have been arrested by detectives investigating a crash that killed seven people, including two police officers. PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, were killed on Saturday when a Volkswagen Passat, which had been pursued by police, was driven the wrong way down the A66 near Middlesbrough and hit their marked armed response vehicle. All five occupants of the pursued car – Cole Robert Worthy, 17; Theo Rae, 17; Makai Saddington, 18; Michael Robert Cahill, 23; and Jacob Matusiak, 23 – were declared dead at the scene. Police have said the group had links to “serious and organised criminal activity” and that four of the five had a total of 37 previous convictions for offences such as possession of a bladed article, car theft, possession of drugs, racially aggravated intentional harassment, and numerous driving offences. He added: “It’s a real problem.

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