Girl, two, killed in river crash

The Land Rover was submerged in the River Witham

A two-year old girl died and four children were seriously injured when a Land Rover car crashed into a river in Lincolnshire.

Two other children and two adults in the vehicle were not seriously hurt when it left the A153 at Tattershall Bridge near Coningsby, police said.

The four seriously injured children were taken to Lincoln County Hospital and Boston Pilgrim Hospital.

Police said some people tried to rescue the car's occupants from the river.

'Waded in water'

The two-year-old child was also taken to Lincoln County Hospital, where she later died.

Lincolnshire Police spokesman Sgt Andy Roach said it was believed the Land Rover lost control and plunged down the embankment into the River Witham.

The accident at 1550 BST on Sunday happened as the car passed a white minibus towing a trailer containing canoes on a single track road.

Sgt Roach said: "There were some local heroes who... waded into the water and helped rescue these people from the vehicle."

Local resident Jill Ogburn, who helped the survivors, said: "It was very distressing - everybody was doing everything they could to help and to comfort the children."

Police said they believe the adults were the parents of all seven children.

Two of the seriously injured children, aged between 3 and 13, were later transferred to Leicester Royal Infirmary.

An eight-year-old girl remains in a critical condition, two children are described as critical but stable and another is stable.