THE teenage girl who died in a crash near a North Yorkshire school has been named by police.

Sixteen-year-old Eleanor Hague - known as Ellie - from Sherburn in Elmet, a sixth form student at Tadcaster Grammar School, died in the two-vehicle collision in Tadcaster on Monday (December 1).

North Yorkshire Police said her family was being supported by specially trained police officers.

Ellie was a passenger in a white Mercedes Sprinter minibus that was in a crash with a light-coloured Hyundai i10 car on Toulston Lane - at the junction with Rudgate, near her school - at around 12.28pm on Monday.

The minibus was heading towards Sherburn and the car entered Toulston Lane from Rudgate.

The minibus was carrying nine passengers aged 16 to 18 – both from Tadcaster Grammar School and Sherburn Hig

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