{"id":606356,"date":"2025-12-02T01:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/606356\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T01:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:09:12","slug":"teenage-girl-killed-after-minibus-crash-in-north-yorkshire-north-yorkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/606356\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage girl killed after minibus crash in North Yorkshire | North Yorkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A teenage girl has been killed after the minibus she was travelling in collided with a car in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/north-yorkshire\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Yorkshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The crash occurred just before 12.30pm when the minibus, carrying the girl and eight other passengers aged 16 to 18, collided with a Hyundai i10 at a junction on Toulston Lane in Tadcaster, close to Tadcaster grammar school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police said the girl died at the scene. Another passenger, also a teenage girl, was taken to hospital with serious injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The other passengers, including the man driving the minibus, suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Officers have arrested the driver of the car, a 40-year-old woman, in connection with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a statement, police appealed for witnesses or motorists with dashcam footage to come forward and said Toulston Lane remains closed to traffic as police inquiries continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe are not in a position to identify the girl at this time,\u201d the police statement said. \u201cWe are continuing to support her family and further updates will be issued when appropriate to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe urge everyone to respect the family\u2019s wish to grieve in private.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Tadcaster grammar school sent a message to parents warning them it will be shut on Tuesday as the site \u201cwill not be safe for students\u201d, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage girl has been killed after the minibus she was travelling in collided with a car in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-606356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115647307032529061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}