THE man killed in a crash between a car and a coach on a North Yorkshire road was 50-year-old father-of-three Martyn Tattersall, from York.

Mr Tattersall was pronounced dead at the scene of the collision on the A19, at the Easingwold bypass, at about 5.30pm on Monday.

He was driving a blue Seat Leon which was travelling south when it was involved in a collision with a National Express coach, carrying about 40 elderly people, which was heading in the opposite direction.

Anybody with information about the crash should phone Traffic Constable Neil Cholmondeley of North Yorkshire Police’s Thirsk road policing group on 0845 6060 247.