Hunt's Cross car crash: Victim named

Dec 9 2007 By Dave Higgerson

A WOMAN who died when the car she was travelling in crashed early yesterday has been named by police.

Melanie Peters, 25,  believed to be from the Woolton area of Liverpool, was a passenger in the car which crashed on Speke Hall Road, at around 4.15am yesterday.

She was declared dead at the scene while the male driver of the car, aged 26, who has not been named, was taken to hospital by paramedics.

His condition is said to be 'serious but not life threatening.'

Speke Hall Road close to the Asda supermarket remained sealed off for much of the day as accident investigators tried to establish what had caused the vehicle to leave the road.

A spokesman for Merseyside Police said: "It has not yet been established what the cause of the accident was.

"No other vehicle was involved. It appears the car left the road, but we do not know why yet.

"Two people were in the vehicle at the time, one of whom, a woman, died as a result of the accident.

"The man in the car is now in hospital."

A spokesman for the North West Ambulance service, said: "We were called to the incident at Speke Hall Road at 4.21am this morning.

"Two paramedic ambulances attended along with a rapid response vehicle.

"There was one fatality at the scene."