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Striking hospital workers temporarily return to role following tragic road accident
Jessica Baker, 15, was killed when a school bus overturned on the Wirral in Merseyside on Friday. The picture was issued by her family

STRIKING hospital workers in Merseyside returned to their hospitals to help victims of a tragic road accident in which a teenage school student and a coach driver were killed.

The accident happened on the Wirral shortly after 8am on Friday when a coach carrying 50 people on the M53 motorway hit the central reservation and overturned as it carried school students to two schools in West Kirby.

Driver Stephen Shrimpton, 40, and passenger Jessica Baker died in the accident.

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