Police update on A66 crash as 17 people arrested

The crash killed seven people including two police officersPress Association Reporters and Jamie Greer General reporter08:04, 26 Aug 2026Updated 08:04, 26 Aug 2026Police investigations are continuing into the events surrounding Saturday’s deadly A66 crash after five more arrests were made yesterday. Cleveland Police have arrested a total of 17 people following the crash on the A66 near Middlesbrough in the early hours of Saturday, August 22 in which two police officers and five others in a Volkswagen Passat died.‌On Tuesday August 25, the force said it had arrested five more people with the assistance of the National Crime Agency and the North East Regional Organised Crime Unit.‌The force said they were a boy aged 16, an 18-year-old and a man of 21, all on suspicion of participating in an