Police say their investigations into yesterday’s horrific crash on the A38 at Landrake are continuing.

Three people - including a woman and a child - died in the five-vehicle collision yesterday morning. Six more were injured.

A boy travelling in the same car as the woman and child was airlifted to Bristol Children’s Hospital with head injuries, said not to be life-threatening.

Police have been reported this morning saying a vehicle stopped on the Plymouth-bound carriageway.

Somebody got out and was in collision with a car travelling in the opposite direction, losing his life.

One eye-witness described a car seemingly travelling out of control moments before the accident.

Saltash PCSO Kirsty Down, who was first at the scene, said it had been the ’hardest, most heartbreaking shift I’ve done in my six years of policing’ and said her thoughts were with everybody who had lost loved ones.

She praised local residents who had offered water to people stuck in the tailbacks after the A38 was closed in both directions for several hours.

Police have appealed for witnesses to the collision to contact them on 101.