Spalding van driver seriously injured after accident in which car driver killed

A van driver from Spalding is seriously injured after an accident this morning (Thursday) which resulted in the death of a woman in her twenties.

The incident, involving a black Vauxhall Astra and a white Ford Transit van, happened at just after 6.15am on the A605 between Coates and March.

Emergency services attended but the driver of the car, from Wisbech, died at the scene.

The driver of the van, a 54-year-old man from Spalding, was taken to Peterborough City Hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

There were no passengers in either vehicle.

Police are appealing for witnesses, dashcam footage or anyone who saw the vehicles in the moments leading up to the incident.

Anyone who witnessed the collision should contact police on www.cambs.police.uk/report quoting incident 76 of June 3, or call 101.