Man dies after crash near Stansted Airport as cops make appeal for information
A MAN in his 60s has died following a horrific car crash near a major airport in the early hours of this morning.
Cops had rushed to the scene near Stansted Airport, in Essex, shortly after they were called at 2.30am today to reports of a fatal collision.
The Essex police department said that emergency services, including the air ambulance, attended the scene.
However, the man, believed to be a Polish national with British citizenship, died shortly after the crash.
It is understood that the road was closed while emergency services were responding to the situation, but was reopened shortly after.
Cops have now put out an appeal urging people with CCTV or dashcam footage of the crash to step forward.
It comes after a 19-year-old was killed while crossing a road in a horror hit-and-run case.
The man was struck by a Ford while crossing a road near Leeds Urban Bike Path on Saturday.
The car failed to stop at the scene, where the pedestrian was sadly killed.
Two arrests have now been made with two males, aged 15 and 19, taken into custody.
The horror crash occurred on Middleton Ring Road, Beeston Park, with police asking witnesses to come forward.
The Major Collision and Enquiry Team has asked for any dash cam footage to be submitted and for any witnesses to come forward.
Meanwhile, footage captured the moment an uninsured learner driver runs away after killing a woman in a horror head-on crash.
Dashcam footage showed Khizer Ali smashing his mum’s VW Gold into a Vauxhall Meriva, carrying elderly couple Valerie and David Ayres.
Ali was seen speeding at 59mph in a 40mph zone moments before the fatal crash on the A441 in Redditch, Worcester, on April 23 last year.
Mrs Ayres, 65, was killed instantly while her husband suffered horrific life-changing injuries.
Ali admitted a string of offences, including causing death by dangerous driving, at Worcester Crown Court.
On Friday, he was jailed for 11 years and three months and banned from driving for 12-and-a-half years.
The court heard Ali, who only held a provisional licence, had been driving his sister’s car but swapped with her to get into their mother’s Golf.
The car was a Motability scheme vehicle that only his mother and sister were insured on.
It comes after a heartbroken mum paid an emotional tribute to her three-week-old baby killed by a drug-driver.
Newborn Harley Wilkinson died in a horror crash that unfolded in Worcestershire at just after midnight on October 26 last year.
The family had been on their way home after picking the infant up from a relative’s house.
Harley had been sitting on his father Jake Wilkinson’s lap in the back seat while his mum, Imogen Bradley, drove.
A court heard Mr Wilkinson had become “frustrated” at trying to strap Harley into his car seat, so he chose to hold him for the short journey.
Disaster struck when Craig Nunn, 40, ran his Ford Focus through a red light and smashed into their black Suzuki Vitara.