Children 'critical' after fatal car crash

The parents of three children seriously injured in a road crash that killed their eldest daughter kept a Christmas Day vigil at their hospital bedsides yesterday.

Chelsea, Paige and Connor Parry, aged four, seven and eight, were being driven by their mother when the family car was involved in a collision in Anglesey, north Wales, on Sunday.

Jade Parry, 12, died at the scene and her sisters and brother were badly hurt. All three were being treated at Liverpool's Alder Hey hospital, where their condition was described as "very critical".

The children's mother, Wendy, needed hospital treatment for her injuries but has since been discharged.

She and her husband, John, of Cemaes Bay, Anglesey, remained by their daughters' bedsides throughout Christmas Day.

Meanwhile, the families of three adults killed in a Christmas Eve collision were coming to terms with their own grief yesterday.

Two men and a woman died when a Volvo and a Vauxhall Astra collided shortly before 2.30pm on Christmas Eve close to a railway bridge in Waverton, near Chester.

A man, the front-seat passenger in the Volvo, and another man and a woman, both passengers in the Astra, were killed in the collision. The two drivers, both described by police as "walking wounded", were treated at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

In a separate accident in Scotland on Tuesday afternoon, a driver died after his car collided with another vehicle on the road between Elgin and Rothes. The female driver of the other car was taken to Dr Grays Hospital in Elgin, where she received medical attention. Neither the dead man nor the other driver has been named by police.

Meanwhile, investigations continue into a Christmas Eve plane crash near Aberdeen airport in which four people were injured, none seriously, when an aircraft made an emergency landing and collided with a car.