A 19-year-old woman died after she was in a collision with a taxi at 4.50am this morning.

Police are appealing for witnesses to the accident which happened on the coast road between Redcar and Marske.

The teenager, who is from the Redcar area, was pronounced dead at the scene.

A spokeswoman for Cleveland Police said the taxi driver stopped at the scene and alerted police and is currently assisting officers with their inquiries.

The woman was wearing a black jacket with a light coloured top underneath, blue jeans and black boots.

Police are in the process of informing her family but are appealing to anyone in the vicinity at the time or who may have witnesses the incident to copntact Cleveland and Durham specialist operations debartment on 101 quoting incident number CVP64159 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.