A WOMAN from Burnley was killed and two children left fighting for their lives after an horrific head on car crash in Bradford.

A green Rover car containing six members of the same family from Burnley collided with a silver Ford Focus, containing three local men, which was overtaking a line of traffic.

The Focus landed on the Rover before skidding off on to its roof.

Two children from the Rover aged two and seven were critically injured in the crash at Leaventhorpe.

Firefighters arrived found the crumpled Focus on its roof and a group of women trapped inside the wreck of the Rover.

Passers-by rushed to pluck the two children from Rover car but rescuers from Fairweather Green fire station had to cut away its roof to free the adults inside, four female members of the same Asian family whose names have not yet been released.

Two Bradford teenagers inside the Ford Focus, the 19-year-old driver and his 18-year-old front seat passenger, were killed, while a third teenager in the rear survived and was "stable" in Bradford Royal Infirmary today.

Neighbour Brenda Lee, 55, whose home is just yards from the scene, said: "I heard a horrendous, almighty bang and my husband told me to phone an ambulance, then we went straight out.

"It was absolutely terrible.

"There was a Rover by the side of the road with an Asian family in it, and another car further up which had turned on its roof. I heard screams from this car and ran straight across to it."

"There were at least two men in there and the lad in the back was screaming out, obviously in agony. I just got down on my knees and held his hand, which was all I could see of him, and told him everything was going to be all right."

She added: "There was a fatal accident here 12 months ago and we said at that time there would be more deaths if something wasn,t done to slow down the traffic."

Today police were investigating the cause of the crash and appealing for witnesses.

Inspector Harcharan Singh, of Bradford North, police said: "This was a very serious accident. Three are dead and everyone was injured in some way. The two children have serious injuries." The two-year-old girl was in Leeds General Infirmary today and the seven-year-old boy was in Bradford Royal Infirmary together with three relatives, all women in their 20s.