Five young men – some still in their teens – driving suspiciously in the early hours of the morning, using a car believed to have cloned number plates and a police chase.
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Just 10 seconds later, the men smash head on into another police car that had been sent to help.
Details of yesterday’s awful events in Middlesbrough are starting to emerge. As are previous posts from some of the young men’s social media accounts.
Alongside more tributes to the two officers killed in the crash.
The independent police watchdog is continuing to review all the information it has on the fatal crash.
The family of PC Tom Clough – one of the two police officers killed when a car traveling in the wrong direction on the A66 collided with a patrol car – has described him as "our hero with a fantastic sense of humour".
They said he had "proudly fought for his country".
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