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Police have released the names of the people involved in a car accident which left one man dead and four injured.

Ashley Connell, 23, of Knowsley Road, Wilpshire, a front seat passenger, received fatal injuries after he was thrown from the vehicle.

This morning Ashley Fielding, 25, of Whalley Banks, Whalley, remained in a stable condition in the orthopaedic ward at the Royal Preston hospital.

Sam Litherland, 21, Longsight Road, Copster Green, Blackburn, is poorly but stable in the Royal Preston Hospital.

Christian Gillibrand, 20, from Ramsgreave Drive, Blackburn, received serious injuries.

He is critically ill in the intensive care unit in Royal Blackburn Hospital.

Julian Hollings, 23, from Ribchester Road, Blackburn, remains in a stable condition in the Royal Blackburn Hospital.

The accident occurred just after 5pm on Saturday afternoon when a Honda Civic hit stone walls on both sides of Mellor Lane between Whinney Lane and Barker Lane three times before finally ploughing into a parked car.

Police said 'excessive' speed seemed to be the main cause of the crash.

The road was closed on Sunday afternoon as police officers cleared the vehicles and staged a reconstruction.

Investigating officer Sergeant Pete Sculpher said: "The car has come over the brow and lost control.

"We think there was a car going in the opposite direction, somebody who may be a witness as to the manner of driving of the car.

"For some reason he started losing control, mounted the pavement then for some reason, having lost control, he hit the wall then he's somehow come back and hit the back of the Volvo."

"There was one male deceased on the roadway having been thrown from the car and the other people were trapped in the rear of the vehicle.

"It is very much looking like it's going to be speed-related."

He said it could be six weeks before it is determined how fast the car was going.

The car was travelling away from Mellor and first hit the stone wall on its left hand side then hit the right and the left again before ploughing into the Volvo.

Paramedic Eamon Higgins, who attended the scene on the 60mph road, said: "To catapult somebody through the windscreen takes some force.

"We didn't notice one of them at first. He was hidden.

"Even the driver had been flung into the back seat with the force.

"This was a particularly nasty crash, the injuries were horrific."

He said the young men may not have been wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash which would explain why the driver and front seat passenger were both flung out of their seats.

He said: "We don't think they had any seatbelts on.

"We have the front seat passenger who was projected through the windscreen.

"The rest have ended up crushed in the back seat."

Four ambulances, fire crews, the air ambulance service and the police helicopter all attended the scene.

Manager of the nearby Spread Eagle Hotel, Shane Langford, said he wanted to see the speed limit halved on the road.

He said: "It's terrible. It needs to be reduced to 30mph on that road rather than 60mph.

"There have been lots of accidents over the years.

"It's quite dangerous - you can pick up speed quite easily."

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