Man died and son injured after horror smash with bus

A man has died and his 10 year old son is seriously injured when their car was in collision with a bus.

Emergency services were called to the scene on the A15 at Scampton, shortly after 7pm on Friday September 8 after a black Nissan Qashqai collided with a Stagecoach double decker bus.

The driver of the Nissan, a 44 year-old local man, died. His 10 year-old son was airlifted to hospital in Sheffield where he remains with serious, but not life-threatening, injuries.

The Collision Investigation team would like to hear from any witnesses to the collision who have not already spoken with officers at the scene. They would also like to speak to anyone who saw either of the vehicles travelling on the A15 prior to the collision.

Anyone with information should call 101, quoting incident number 426 of 8th September.