Blythburgh: Two Killed In Pub Car Crash

25 November 2013, 06:34 | Updated: 25 November 2013, 06:36

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Two men have died and four more are in hospital after a car hit a pub on the A12 in Suffolk on Saturday night.

Police are appealing for witnesses to a collision that happened  at around 9.30pm.

Police received a report of a grey Citroen Berlingo car colliding with the White Hart pub on the A12. Emergency services attended and two men were pronounced deceased at the scene.
 
Four other men were injured in the collision - two men were taken to Ipswich Hospital with one then being transferred to Addenbrooke's Hospital in a critical condition. The man who remains at Ipswich Hospital has serious injuries but is stable. A man was airlifted to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with serious injuries, and a man was taken to the James Paget Hospital but then transferred to the Norfolk and Norwich with serious injuries. Both these men remain stable.
 
Officers say there appears to be no significant damage to the pub. The road was closed until 4am whilst a collision investigation got underway.
 
Officers want to speak to anyone who witnessed the collision or may have seen the car beforehand, which had been travelling north on the A12 towards Lowestoft.
 
Contact PC Andy Smith at Suffolk's Serious Collision Investigation Team on 101.