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Accident follows two similar crashes in Ireland where police highlighted a social media trend of driving in the opposite direction. Seven people, including two police officers, have died in a head-on collision during a pursuit, after a vehicle driving down the wrong side of a major road hit a police car in the United Kingdom. All occupants of both vehicles were pronounced dead at the scene near Middlesbrough in northeast England on Saturday, according to the Cleveland Police. A total of 12 people have been killed in less than a week in separate accidents involving cars driving on the wrong side of the road in the UK and Ireland, as a similar collision occurred in Dublin on Sunday. The Cleveland Police said five members of the public were travelling along the wrong side of the road in a Volkswagen Passat when it collided with a marked police vehicle heading in the correct direction at around 3:39am (02:39 GMT).
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Fuller named the two dead officers as police constables Matthew Blades, 37, and Tom Clough, 38, describing them as “brave officers … who didn’t return home to their families at the end of their shift”.
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