Five more people have been arrested following investigations into events surrounding the crash on the A66 which killed seven people including two serving police officers.
It brings the total of arrests to 17 following the horrific crash near Middlesbrough in the early hours of Saturday.
On Tuesday, Cleveland Police said it had arrested five more people with the assistance of the National Crime Agency and the North East Regional Organised Crime Unit.
The force said they were a boy aged 16, an 18-year-old and a man of 21, all on suspicion of participating in an organised crime group; a 55-year-old on suspicion of assisting an offender and a 23-year-old on suspicion of making threats to kill.
Cleveland Police said two of the 12 people previously arrested have now appeared in court.
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– A powerful tornado has caused widespread damage to a small village in southern France.
– The Government has released billions of pounds worth of funding to build 70 thousand new homes in England.
– A special report into how children who grow up in the care system are at a much higher risk of an early death.
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