A WOMAN died and three people were critically injured after a head-on crash between two cars on the A143 between Stradishall and Haverhill.
The 44-year-old woman, named by police as Jane Gatt, from the Haverhill area, was driving a blue Citroen Saxo towards Haverhill on Monday when it collided at about 11am with a blue Porsche 944S, about half-a-mile south of Highpoint Prison, near a tur
n-off for Little Thurlow.
Emergency services arrived to find the driver of the Saxo and her male and female passengers trapped in the car, while the male driver of the Porsche was out of his vehicle and on the road.
Four land and two air ambulances attended the crash scene, together with police and fire engines from Haverhill, Bury St Edmunds and Wickhambrook.
Firefighters cut the Saxo occupants free from the car before all four casualties were taken to hospital with multiple injuries.
Two of the casualties were air lifted to Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge and a third taken to the same hospital by land ambulance.
Police said the male Saxo passenger had intially been taken to West Suffolk Hospital, in Bury St Edmunds, before being transferred to Addenbrooke's Cambridge, where he was said to be in a 'serious' condition yesterday morning.
Ms Gatt, the Saxo driver, subsequently died from her injuries and the driver of the Porsche and the female passenger from the Saxo were in a crtical condition in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, at the time the Echo went to press.
Police, who kept the road closed until about 4.10pm, are now appealing for anyone with information about the crash to contact Pc Nick Spencer at Bury Road Policing Unit on 01473 613500.
EMERGENCY services were called to the A143 Stradishall crossroads at 8.21pm on Sunday, when a vehicle went into a ditch.
Firefighters from Wickhambrook and Clare attended the crash and the vehicle's occupant was taken to hospital by ambulance.
The crews returned to their stations shortly after 9pm.
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