A man died, several people were hurt and a young girl had an amazing escape in a string of road accidents in North and East Yorkshire.

A police officer examines the wreckage of the Nissan Bluebird in which a man died following a collision today with a BMW

The man, believed to be in his 60s, was pronounced dead at York District Hospital today after his Nissan Bluebird and another car collided on Naburn Lane, near Naburn Waterworks.

The impact of the accident left one side of the car torn off.

The male driver of the other car and his passenger, a boy thought to be about ten years old, were taken to York District Hospital suffering from shock and minor injuries.

Sergeant Martyn Ellerker, of York police, said: "It appears from skidmarks on the road that the Bluebird left the near side of the road and collided with an on-coming vehicle."

The accident left Naburn Lane closed to traffic from 8am.

Meanwhile, a seven-year-old boy and his mother suffered serious injuries in a two-car smash on a country road in East Yorkshire.

Relatives of the family said today the boy's four-year-old half-sister was thrown through the front windscreen in the crash but escaped injury.

The crash happened on the back road between Market Weighton and North Cliffe, and one of the four ambulances called overturned near the scene.

Tracey Jane Strangeway, 31, of Denison Road, Pocklington, and her seven-year-old son were travelling with other family members in a Volvo 340 which was in collision with a blue Vauxhall Vectra.

Mrs Strangeway, who was in the passenger seat, received facial and back injuries, and her son received serious head injuries. They were taken to Hull Royal Infirmary.

Mrs Strangeway underwent a four-hour operation on her face.

A spokeswoman for Hull Royal Infirmary said this afternoon that the boy had regained consciousness and was "poorly but stable".

He sustained a fractured skull and a chipped bone above his eyebrow.

He received emergency surgery upon arriving at the hospital and doctors said today they were satisfied with his condition.

Grandfather Mr David Strangeway said his four-year-old granddaughter had been lucky to escape being thrown from the car.

"It's unbelievable," he said. "She went through the windscreen but fortunately the glass had already been knocked out and she went through the hole and landed in a ditch.

"She has a bump on her head, but that's all."

The girl's two-year-old sister was uninjured.

The driver of the Volvo, Mrs Strangeway's partner, Stephen George Cooper, received stitches for a cut to his jaw and suffered minor leg injuries.

Christine Louise Morgan, 37, the driver of the Vauxhall, received minor chest injuries.

The crash happened half a mile from the junction with the A1079 outside Crossfield House and Nigel Metcalfe, of Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service, said four ambulance crews were called to the accident just after 9am yesterday.

He said the second accident happened when one of the ambulances, travelling from Brough, swerved to avoid another vehicle, went up a slight embankment and ended up on its roof.

In another accident, a teenager was hurt when the Ford Fiesta car he was driving crashed into a house and burst into flames. A farmer pulled the unconscious driver clear of the wreckage.

Motorist John Robert Dowkes, 17, of Croft Avenue, Pickering, was taken to Scarborough Hospital following the accident near Pickering at about 4.20pm on Saturday. He was discharged from hospital yesterday.

The accident happened outside Longacre, Gallow Heads Lane, between Pickering and Marton. The occupants of the house, a family called Connell, were out at the time.

Front-seat passenger Peter Ord, 14, from Pickering, and rear-seat passenger Robert Stephenson, 15, of Hawthorne Close in the town, were slightly hurt.

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