POLICE were today appealing for information after a teenage boy died in a car accident. The 16-year-old boy was found in a white F-registered Ford Escort which had left the road and ended up in a garden on Hattersley Road West in Hattersley.

He was rushed to Tameside General Hospital but died from his injuries. Four other occupants of the car are believed to have fled the scene before police arrived shortly before 1am.