A man from Shipley has been arrested in connection with a horror crash which claimed the lives of five people.

The 45-year-old man was arrested by officers from West Yorkshire police and questioned about the accident at Eccleshill police station.

Meanwhile two other men, both from Leicestershire, were arrested by police in the Midlands.

All three men have now been released on police bail pending further inquiries.

The accident happened on December 7 in freezing fog on the A42 at Measham when a lorry being driven by Graham Jagger, 45, of West Royd Drive, Windhill, Shipley, was involved in a collision with a minibus.

The five people killed were all members of a pub football team from the village of Groby and had been travelling to a Christmas party.

More than a dozen people were also injured in the crash.

Mr Jagger, who has a wife, Christine, suffered minor injuries and spent a night at Derby Royal Infirmary before being allowed to return home to Shipley and has refused to comment on the accident.

Leicestershire police are continuing to investigate the accident but say the minibus and the articulated Volvo lorry belonging to Mr Jagger's employer, McFarlane Transport, had been travelling in the same direction at the time of the crash.

A West Yorkshire police spokesman said: "We can confirm that West Yorkshire police arrested a 45-year-old man from Shipley on behalf of Leicestershire police and that he's been released on police bail pending further inquiries.''

A spokesman for Leicestershire police said today: "Three men - one from West Yorkshire and two from Leicestershire - who were arrested yesterday regarding the fatal road traffic accident on December 7 have been released on police bail pending further inquiries.''

A spokesman for McFarlane Transport, which is based at Calverley Bridge, Rodley, refused to comment.

Mr Jagger, who has three children, has worked for the company for more than ten years as an HGV driver and was on his way to make a collection in the East Midlands when the accident happened.

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