Crash victim named

Nov 28 2009 by Vicky Robson, The Journal

A TEENAGER who died after a road accident in Northumberland was named by the police yesterday.

Liam Charles Hawley died following an accident on a busy stretch of the A197 on Whorrall Bank, in Morpeth, in the early hours of Thursday.

The 19-year-old was among four teenagers travelling in a blue Renault Megane, which spun off the road and hit a tree at about 2.50am.

He was taken to Wansbeck District Hospital, along with the three other teenagers.

But desperate attempts by paramedics to save Mr Hawley, who was from the Morpeth area, were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at the hospital at 4.15am, about an hour and a half after the crash.

The car had been travelling north out of Morpeth when it left the carriageway on the nearside at the top of the steep bank, crashing into a tree and bushes.

Police, paramedics and firefighters were all called to the accident scene.

Fire crews from Ashington and Morpeth had to cut free the driver and remove the roof to free Mr Hawley.

The two other passengers had managed to free themselves before emergency services arrived.

All four men in the car, aged 18 and 19, were taken to Wansbeck District Hospital, where Mr Hawley was pronounced dead.

The other three teenagers all suffered injuries which are not thought to be life threatening.