The body of a girl has been found after a car crashed into a Cambridgeshire river last night.
Specialist divers recovered the body this afternoon, as searches continue for a teenage boy who is still missing following the collision.
The vehicle, carrying five people, veered off the road and into the River Nene in Wisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire, at around 8.20pm on Tuesday night.
The car had been travelling southbound on North Brink when it left the road, police said.
Police divers are still scouring the water nearby as one of the five people in the car – who were all between 16 and 18 – remains unaccounted for.
Three females and two males were in the vehicle at the time of the crash, according to police, and two females and one male made it out.
Those who escaped the car were taken to The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn with non-life-threatening injuries.
A Cambridgeshire Police spokesman said: ‘North Brink is likely to remain closed for the remainder of the day. We are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage.
Emergency workers are pictured at the scene of the hunt for the missing teenagers in Cambridgeshire
The vehicle veered off the road and into the River Nene in Wisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire, at around 8.20pm on Tuesday night. Picture from the scene
Police divers are scouring the water as one of the five people in the car – who were all between 16 and 18 – remains unaccounted for
‘Anyone with information about the incident should use the reference incident 515 of 17 March and report it through the Cambridgeshire website.’
One local, Billy Cunningham, said: ‘We saw the two boys get out of the car and then by the time we saw the ambulance arrive we saw a girl screaming in the hedge. It was horrific.
‘She was screaming so loud, it was piercing.’
There was a white forensic tent on the riverbank and emergency service vehicles parked along the road nearby.
Police are appealing for witnesses and those with dashcam footage to contact them, referencing incident 515 of March 17.
Residents living near the scene of the crash dashed to the site and helped emergency services search the river bank with torches.
One said on a local Facebook forum: ‘Stood there three hours with torches trying to help but nothing as of yet pray there found my heart goes to the family.
Another posted: ‘I really hope everyone involved is ok.’
Others described North Brink, the long, narrow, straight stretch of road running alongside the River Nene as ‘really dangerous.’
A half-mile stretch of the road near Wisbech St Mary remains cordoned off on Wednesday afternoon as the search continues.
A fire engine was seen leaving the area at lunchtime.
The River Nene at North Brink is a tidal stretch of water which links to The Wash.
Its depth varies with the tide but it can be between nine feet and 15 feet deep.
