THE man killed in a road crash near Boroughbridge at 7am last Saturday has been named as Vince Ivor Chadwick, from Pudsey, near Leeds.

North Yorkshire Police said the 61-year-old was travelling in a Renault towards Boroughbridge on the A168, near the junction for Marton cum Grafton, when he was in collision with a Citroen C4.

The Citroen’s occupants, a couple from the Ripon area who had been travelling in the opposite direction, were taken to Harrogate District Hospital. The extent of their injuries remains unknown.

Police urged witnesses and, in particular, the driver of a van which is believed to have hit the central barrier just before the incident, to phone Traffic Constable Tracy Smales on 0845 6060247.