Truck racer tragedy
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• One of Britain's youngest truck racers, Terry Crossland, has died in a domestic accident. Crossland, 24, was suffocated by a faulty gas fire.
He began racing at 15 on grass track machines, graduated to stock cars and at 21 earned his HGV licence and went into truck racing.
During 1986 he had success with a Gardiner-engined ERF and this season had moved to a Cummins-engined Leyland Roadtrain. His exuberant driving style earned him the nickname "Crossed-up Crossland". Last week he and his father Trevor went to George Allen Truck to supervise the building of a bonnetted Volvo White Roadboss which he was to have driven in 1988.
Crossland came from Wakefield, Yorkshire, and ran Millfield Horbury garage with his father. The British Truck Racing Association and his many friends have extended their condolences to his family.