Police name three men killed in collision on A62, Huddersfield Road

Police have named the three men, all from Huddersfield, who were killed in a fatal road traffic collision on the A62 Huddersfield Road in the early hours of Friday 17 March 2006.

22-year-old Paul McKenzie (08/08/83) from Reed Street in Marsh, 24-year-old Ross Neill (19/11/81) from Lord Street, Slaithwaite and 26-year-old Carl Rawlinson, (19/03/79) from Huddersfield (no further address details at this
stage) were pronounced dead at the scene.

All three men had been travelling in a Peugeot 106, in the direction of Delph, when it was in collision with a single decker bus that was travelling in the opposite direction towards Oldham.

Two other men, a 25-year-old man from Marsden and a 21-year-old man from Slaithwaite, also travelling in the Peugeot, sustained serious injuries in the collision and are being treated at the Royal Oldham Hospital. They are
described as being in a serious but stable condition.

Traffic officers are continuing to appeal for witnesses to the road traffic collision, which occurred at around 1am in the early hours of Friday morning, approximately 150m east of the junction with Platting Lane.

The driver of the bus suffered cuts and bruises.

Enquiries into the cause of the collision are continuing and anyone who witnessed the incident is asked to contact the Area 3 Road Policing Unit at Rochdale on 0161 856 8473.