Five car plunge victims named

The victims, clockwise from top left, Lyndsey Heaps, Caroline Wright, Teri Regan, James Cummins, Mark Crawford

Police have named the five people who died when a car plunged 40ft from a road intersection in Leeds.

They were in a Vauxhall Cavalier which was going towards the A58 inner ring road when it left the carriageway and fell on to the slip road below.

More than 20 firefighters fought to free the casualties using airbags to raise the shattered wreckage of the vehicle.

Witnesses said the car was travelling at high speed before the accident at 0150 BST on Wednesday.

Victims named

The driver of the vehicle has been named as 32-year-old James Cummins, of Wensleydale Rise, Bramley, Leeds.

The wreckage of the Vauxhall Cavalier is removed

His front seat passenger was Mark Crawford, 20, also of Wensleydale Rise.

The three female back seat passengers were named as Leanne Teri Regan, 18, and Caroline Wright, 18, both of Outgang Lane, Bramley, Leeds, and Lyndsey Heaps, of Model Road, Armley.

The four passengers died at the scene, and Mr Cummins was taken to Leeds General Infirmary where he later died.