Two women were killed when a stolen car, being driven at high speed, was in collision with their vehicle as they drove home from a night out.

Close friends Janet Herd and Linda Tansley, both 48, and of Eccleshill, Bradford, suffered multiple injuries when their Ford Fiesta was in collision with the Mercedes-Benz, which some witnesses estimated was travelling at up to 100mph.

It is understood the Mercedes CLK 200 was hurtling on the wrong side of a set of bollards in the middle of Apperley Road, near to the Stansfield Arms at Apperley Bridge, Bradford, when it was in collision with the Fiesta as it pulled out of a junction.

The force of the impact spun the Fiesta round and it ended up on a grass verge.

A police patrol car had been pursuing the Mercedes for little more than a minute when the crash happened.

The two women, who had been returning home after enjoying a meal out together with other friends, were taken to hospital where they were pronounced dead.

Five people in the Mercedes – two men aged 22, two 15-year-old girls and a 19-year-old woman, all from Leeds – were taken to hospitals in Bradford and Leeds after the crash, with non-life threatening injuries, and were arrested in connection with the incident.