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Two constabulary officers killed successful a clang connected the A66 died from caput and cervix injuries, an inquest has provisionally concluded.
Cleveland Police officers PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, died connected Saturday erstwhile their constabulary conveyance was deed by a Volkswagen Passat which was going the incorrect mode down the dual carriageway adjacent Middlesbrough.
Area Coroner for Teesside and Hartlepool Paul Appleton opened and adjourned their inquests astatine Teesside Coroner's Court successful short, consecutive hearings.
Further inquests, into the deaths of the 5 young men successful the VW Passat, are expected to unfastened later.
Appleton said some officers died successful a fatal roadworthy postulation collision connected the A66 betwixt Normanby Road and Church Lane successful Eston, aft their conveyance was successful collision with a Volkswagen Passat that was driven "against the travel of traffic".
He said determination had been an "aborted" constabulary pursuit, which some officers were "not straight progressive in".
The inquest was told PC Blades' provisional origin of decease was caput and cervix injuries, portion PC Clough's provisional origin of decease was fixed arsenic cervix injuries.
It was told PC Blades was identified by his woman and PC Clough by his partner.
The coroner said helium was waiting connected a study connected the afloat post-mortem examinations into the men's deaths, a study from the Independent Office for Police Conduct, and a constabulary collision report.
A fundraising entreaty acceptable up by the Cleveland Police Federation for the 2 officers' families has raised more than £1m.
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