This is the wreckage left by a devastating crash which claimed the life of a North Yorkshire teenager

The wrecked car in which a Selby girl died

Claire Smith, 17, a process worker, of Westbourne Terrace, Selby, was one of three people who died in a weekend of carnage on North Yorkshire's roads.

She is thought to have been a rear-seat passenger in the car when it crashed at a railway crossing at Womersley, south of Selby, on Saturday.

The driver of the Vauxhall Nova was Lee Christopher Randall, 18, of Croft Road, Camblesforth, near Selby, and the front seat passenger Mickey Scott, of Town End Avenue, Carlton.

Both Mr Randall and Mr Scott were taken to Pontefract General Infirmary with minor injuries.

Elsewhere in the county an 18-year-old, from Hull, died after the car in which he was a passenger left a road near Scarborough and collided with a tree, and a motorcycle rider was killed in a crash near Harrogate.

The driver of the car, Mark Tyson, 19, from Nettledale Lane, Snainton, near Scarborough, was taken to Scarborough General Hospital with head and arm injuries.

The car left the road on a bend of the Snainton to Troutsdale road at Nettledale Lane.

The teenager killed in the crash was James Frederick Heath, 19, from Cowden, near Hornsea.

The motorcyclist was killed after being in collision with a red Ford Fiesta on the B6161 at Briscoe Rig, between Harrogate and Otley.

The Fiesta driver was taken to Harrogate District Hospital with head and internal injuries.

A car passenger was in hospital with head injuries today after the vehicle was involved in a head-on smash with a taxi.

The woman was taken to Harrogate District Hospital following the accident in Ripon Road, Harrogate.

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