Farmers' tractor tribute to teen crash victims
A tractor run was held earlier in memory of two teenagers who died in a car crash on New Year's Day.
William Herbert, 16, and Olly Mitchell, 18, were passengers in a VW Golf that was in collision with a Vauxhall Grandland in Staithes Road, Preston, near Hull.
More than 100 tractors took part in the event from Howden to Bishop Burton, near Beverley.
Both teenagers were members of The Young Farmers, which organised the tribute, with money raised going to the Dogs Trust and the farmers' charity RABI.
Organiser James Midgley said: "It's just something nice, something they would have both liked to have been part of."
Mr Midgley said both William, from Howden, and Olly, from Ellerton, were tractor enthusiasts and had travelled on two of the vehicles that took part in the run on Sunday.
"We thought there would have been no better way than to get all of their mates together and people who knew them by doing something they enjoyed."
Farmers taking part in the run stopped for lunch in Bishop Burton, where William and Olly had studied.
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