POLICE have named a man killed in a head-on collision which left another four injured.

Paul Vincent Ashton, 26, from Harrogate, died instantly after the Peugeot 205 he was driving was involved in a collision with another car on the A661 in Spofforth, near Wetherby.

His passengers Sheena Brearley, 23, from Knaresborough, Katie French, 20, and Lee Richard Bennett, 24, both from Harrogate, were taken to Harrogate District Hospital with serious but not life threatening injuries.

Stephen Darton, from South Milford, near Selby, was the driver of the other car, a Peugeot 405 estate. He was taken to hospital with serious injuries