Hundreds of people – some wearing balaclavas – have gathered in Middlesbrough for the first funeral of one of five young men killed in a head-on crash on the A66. Jakub Matusiak, also known as Jacob, was killed when a Volkswagen Passat he was travelling in hit a marked police car while going the wrong way down a dual carriageway.
The crash killed Pc Matthew Blades, 37, and Pc Tom Clough, 38. The five young men in the Passat – Mr Matusiak, 23; Cole Worthy, 17; Theo Rae, 17; Makai Saddington, 18; and Michael Cahill, 23 – were also pronounced dead at the scene.
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