POLICE are trying to trace a HGV driver who attened the scene of a horrific fatal accident on the A65 at the weekend.

Three young men died in a car crash in the early hours of Saturday morning after their car hit a wall and catapulted into a tree on the A65 near Kirkby Lonsdale.

Police officers investigating the deaths are trying to trace drivers who stopped at the scene of the accident.

They particularly want to talk to a HGV driver as well as other motorists ahead of the inquests into the tragedy.

The driver of the blue Ford Fiesta XR2 was Scott Bonsall, 20, from New Village, Ingleton. The front seat passenger was Keith Phillip Stephenson, 22, also of New Village. In the rear was John Greenfield from Cheapside, Low Bentham.

Two of the bodies had to be cut out of the car but Mr Greenfield's body had been thrown from the car. Paramedics pronounced Mr Bonsall and Mr Stephenson dead at the scene. Mr Greenfield was pronounced dead at the RLI. wA police spokesman said: "One vehicle was involved with three occupants in a fatal accident at 2.17am on Saturday. It was on the A65, 400 metres south of the junction with the A683. They were travelling towards Kirkby Lonsdale. It left the road on the nearside and collided with a one metre high wall and became airborne. It travelled 25 metres through the air and hit a tree."

It is believed that at least one of the men was a member of the army based at Catterick in North Yorkshire.

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