A 23-YEAR-OLD twin has died after the car he was driving crashed into a wall.

Lee Winspear, of Skelton, near Saltburn, was driving a Skoda Favorit on Stanghow Road, between Skelton and Lingdale, when the car veered off the road and hit a stone wall at 7.15pm on Monday.

The car turned on to its roof before rolling over.

Five people were in the green K-registration car at the time of the accident, including Mr Winspear's twin, Carl.

They were all taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital.

One passenger, a 16-year-old girl from Loftus, was detained with leg injuries but Carl, with a 17-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy, both from Loftus, were released from hospital on Monday night.

The Winspear family became well known in the community when Carl and the twins' mother, Marion Farnworth, were featured in a BBC drama-documentary called Little Angels last August.

Producer Peter Lee-Wright said the documentary was about young people fighting heroin addiction.

He said that Lee did not appear in the documentary because he was in prison at the time of filming for the programme.

He said: "We met the family through Carl's friend, Shaun Mann. Carl and his mum appeared several times. His mother was particularly moving when she tried to explain how hard it is trying to cope when your sons get in trouble.

"The last time I was in touch with the family was before Christmas and everything seemed to be going well. This is a tragedy, a waste of a young life."

The family were too devastated to talk about Lee's death.

Police say people are known to have stopped at the accident scene and they are appealing for witnesses to come forward