• A van suspected of being stolen travelled the wrong way down a highway.
• It collided head-on with a cab.
• A 15-year-old kid was detained.

After a van suspected of being stolen travelled the wrong way down a highway and collided head-on with a cab, a 15-year-old kid was detained.

Three persons were killed in a crash on the M606 near the Chain Bar junction in Bradford at around 10.45 p.m. last night.

Both the 28-year-old taxi driver and the man passenger he was transporting died on the spot.

The 18-year-old passenger in the van died this morning in hospital, while another, 17-year-old, is being treated for significant but non-life-threatening injuries.

Because a police vehicle was in the area at the time, West Yorkshire Police reported the incident to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.

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The driver, who is 15 years old, was detained on suspicion of causing death by unsafe driving and is still hospitalized with critical but non-life threatening injuries.

Before travelling the wrong way around the roundabout and onto the southbound carriage of the highway towards Bradford, the van failed to stop for designated police cars.

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The highway was shut down overnight and reopened about 10 a.m. today.

An IPOC spokesperson said: ‘We understand that a Ford Transit van failed to stop for police before it was involved in a collision with a taxi after the van entered the M606 on the wrong side of the carriageway.’

‘IOPC investigators are attending the scene and the police post-incident procedure.’

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