Two women have been killed in a car crash with an 18-year-old new driver arrested.

The two victims, both in their 20s, were driving a Suzuki Alto with a boy in the back seat.

They collided with a Vauxhall Meriva in Common Lane in Pleasley, Derbyshire at 6.20am on Thursday.

The women were pronounced dead at the scene.

A nine-year-old boy who was a passenger in the Suzuki has been taken to hospital with life-changing injuries.

A Derbyshire police spokesman said: ‘Their families are aware and our thoughts are with them.’

Three men who were in the Vauxhall were also injured, two of them seriously.

An 18-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.

The police spokesman added: ‘Due to the injuries he sustained in the collision he was taken to

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