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AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD boy killed in a crash on the A14 was named today.

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Joel Depper, of Uplands Road, Sudbury, was a passenger in a maroon Mazda 2 which crashed off the westbound carriageway near Stow-cum-Quy and hit a tree.

He died in Addenbrooke’s Hospital after suffering head and neck injuries in the crash, which happened at 9am yesterday.

A 41-year-old woman who was driving the car, believed to be the boy’s mother, and a 7-year-old boy who was a passenger in the vehicle, were not seriously hurt.

Police are looking into whether the icy road conditions played a part in the crash as emergency services blamed the weather for a spike in road collisions over the weekend.

Police and the ambulance service were on the scene at 9am following a call from a member of the public.

The boy was treated at the scene by paramedics before he was taken to hospital, where he later died.

The crash closed the road between junction 35 at Stow-cum-Quy and 36 for Nine Mill Hill for several hours while police carried out an investigation.

Traffic was diverted along the A11 towards the M11.

There were three other crashes along that stretch of the A14 yesterday morning.

Police recorded 40 crashes across the county from midnight on Saturday to noon on Sunday, 31 of which required police attendance and 34 of them were in the southern area of the county.

East of England Ambulance Service (EEAST) said collisions had gone up by more than 50 per cent on the icy roads across the area this weekend when compared with the last weekend of January.

Cambridgeshire was among the worst-hit as the service received 169 calls across the east of England to collisions between Friday and Sunday afternoon.

Forty-three of them involved casualties which needed hospital treatment.

An EEAST spokeswoman said: “The cold snap appears to be easing but we would still urge drivers to take extreme care on the roads as ice continues to be an issue.”