A BOY involved in a crash on a stretch of motorway near Worcester earlier this month has died.

David Guest lost his battle for life at the Diana Princess of Wales Hospital, in Birmingham yesterday afternoon.

The 12-year-old, from Solihull, had to be cut free from the wreckage of a Range Rover after it was in collision with an articulated lorry at 1am on the morning of Friday, August 11.

He had been the front seat passenger in the car, and suffered serious head and chest injuries in the accident, which happened on the northbound carriageway near Junction 6 at Warndon.

He had initially been taken to Worcester Royal Infirmary along with his parents Graham and Gwendoline, who suffered minor abrasions and shock.

Another passenger in the car, Linda Ashford, of Birmingham, also needed treatment for minor injuries.

* An 18-year-old man from Bromsgrove was taken to Redditch's Alexandra Hospital with serious head injuries after a collision on the main B4184 Birmingham Road, at Bromsgrove, in the early hours of today.

Teenager Thomas Benjamin Townsend, of Harward Park, was involved in a collision with a white recovery truck. His condition was described as "poorly" today.