Car crash kills 7, including 2 police officers, in Britain

Seven people were killed in a car collision in Cleveland, Britain, early Saturday morning, local police said.
The fatalities included “two serving Cleveland Police officers who were in a marked police vehicle and five members of the public who were traveling in a Volkswagen Passat,” police said in a statement.
“The Passat was traveling the wrong way along the A66 and collided with a police vehicle that was traveling on the same road in the right direction,” the statement said, adding that all occupants of both vehicles were pronounced dead at the scene.
In a separate statement, police identified the two officers as PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38.