A teenager and his father have been killed in a car crash which has left his mother and nine-year-old sister fighting for their lives, police have said.
A 70-year-old woman from York was also killed in the horror crash on a bridge in East Yorkshire on Saturday afternoon.
The 14-year-old boy was a passenger in the Golf which his 47-year-old father was driving. The boy's 44-year-old mother and nine-year-old sister were also passengers in the car.
The woman who survived and her daughter are in a critical condition at Leeds General Infirmary, said Humberside Police. They were taken there by helicopter after the crash.
The family, who are from the West Midlands, were driving north along the A614 when they were in a head-on collision with the pensioner's Volvo on a bridge over the Aire and Calder Navigation canal at about 1.30pm. None of those involved have been named.
The incident provoked a huge emergency services response with two air ambulances, three land ambulances and two rapid response paramedic units joining firefighters and police at the remote scene. The investigation and clear-up operation took more than seven hours.
On Sunday, a single bunch of flowers was left on the centre of bridge. The first person to arrive at the scene of the crash described her frantic attempts to help the injured.
Debbie Hinchliffe lives about 50 metres from the bridge where the two cars collided, leaving both as mangled wrecks. She explained how she ran to the cars to hear the sound of children screaming and found the elderly woman unconscious in the Volvo, which appeared to be about to set on fire.
"It was a shock - the severity of it," she said. "I was stood at my gate and I heard the crash. I ran to the scene. Two cars were written off. The old lady was unconscious and kids were screaming in the back of the other car. And I couldn't get anybody out.
"The car was going to set on fire with the old lady in. So I got in the car with her to turn the ignition off. I released her seatbelt and just stuck with her really. I couldn't do anything else."
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