A frantic search is on for two missing teenagers after a car with five youngsters inside plunged into a river.
The vehicle veered off the road and into the River Nene in Wisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire, at around 8.20pm on Tuesday night.
Police divers are scouring the water nearby as two of the five people in the car – who were all between 16 and 18 – remain unaccounted for.
Three females and two males were in the vehicle at the time of the crash, according to police, and two females and one male made it out.
Those who escaped the car were taken to The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn with non-life-threatening injuries.
A Cambridgeshire Police spokesman said: ‘A male and a female have not been accounted for and searches continue.
‘North Brink is likely to remain closed for the remainder of the day. We are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage.
The vehicle veered off the road and into the River Nene in Wisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire, at around 8.20pm on Tuesday night. Picture from the scene
‘Anyone with information about the incident should use the reference incident 515 of 17 March and report it through the Cambridgeshire website.’
There was a white forensic tent on the riverbank and emergency service vehicles parked along the road nearby.
Police are appealing for witnesses and those with dashcam footage to contact them, referencing incident 515 of March 17.
Residents living near the scene of the crash dashed to the site and helped emergency services search the river bank with torches.
One said on a local Facebook forum: ‘Stood there 3 hrs with torches trying to help but nothing as of yet pray there found my heart goes to the family.
Another posted: ‘I really hope everyone involved is ok.’
Others described North Brink, the long, narrow, straight stretch of road running alongside the River Nene as ‘really dangerous.’
‘That road can be really dangerous, with the potholes and also people drive down there like absolute idiots without giving people space!
A half-mile stretch of the road near Wisbech St Mary remains cordoned off on Wednesday afternoon as the search continues.
A fire engine was seen leaving the area at lunchtime.
The River Nene at North Brink is a tidal stretch of water which links to The Wash.
Its depth varies with the tide but it can be between nine feet and 15 feet deep.