A collision which killed two people yesterday also left another man in a critical condition and a teenage girl in hospital.
Two cars were involved in a head-on collision in Gosfield Road, Braintree, just before 5pm yesterday (December 7).
The driver of a blue Ford Fiesta, a 30-year-old man from Braintree, was declared dead at the scene, as was the rear seat passenger of a blue Volkswagen Polo, who was was an 18-year-old man, also from Braintree.
The driver of the Polo, a man in his 20s from Gosfield, was air lifted to Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge where he remains in a critical condition.
A woman in her 20s from Suffolk, who was the front seat passenger from the Fiesta, was taken by land ambulance to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford with serious injuries.
The front seat passenger from the Polo, a 16-year-old girl from Braintree, was also taken to Broomfield Hospital by land ambulance with serious injuries.
The road was closed while initial investigations were carried out at the scene and the vehicles were recovered and it reopened at around 10pm.
Police are appealing for any witnesses to the collision to contact them, as well as anyone who saw the pre-incident driving of the cars, to contact officers at the Serious Collision Investigation Unit on 101 or email collisionappeal@essex.pnn.police.uk.
