Two killed after coach and lorry collide

The driver of the lorry and a passenger on board the coach died following the accident in the early hours of yesterday morning on the southbound section of the M11 motorway in Essex.

The motorway was closed in both directions between junction 8, the turn-off for Stansted Airport, and junction 9 at Great Chesterford for several hours.

An Essex Police spokesman said police and emergency services were alerted to the crash at 2.20am.

He said: "Several people went to hospital as a precaution. They have been released. There are three people who are getting treatment still in hospital, as far as we know for back injuries, but we are not sure of the severity at the moment."

The driver was last night named as Zdzislaw Piorko, 53, from Maidstone in Kent and the coach passenger as Delia Walker, 63, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire.