Six people remain in hospital after eight young people were injured when the gold coloured VW Golf they were travelling in left the road on The Lizard in the early hours of Satruday morning.

Police are appealing for information following the accident at 00.20 between Traboe Cross and Kuggar near to Goonhilly Earth Station. 

Emergency services were called at 1.10am after the car travelled through a wire fence and into an area of moorland where it rolled over. Police say the car was seriously overloaded.

Three of the occupants sustained serious injuries and were flown to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth by a helicopter from RNAS Culdrose.

They are a 19-year-old man from The Lizard, plus a 25-year-old man and 17-year-old girl from Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire.

The other five were taken by ambulance to Treliske Hospital in Cornwall. The driver, a 17-year-old boy from The Lizard, and a 21-year-old man from Helston have since been discharged.

Three people remain at Treliske, a 17-year-old boy from The Lizard, a 22-year-old woman from Tatley in Warwickshire and a 22-year-old woman from Leeds who is in intensive care with potentially life-threatening injuries.

The road was closed for 13 hours while a specialist forensic investigation of the scene was carried out.

An investigation is underway by officers from the Serious Collisions Investigation Unit who are appealing for witnesses to the incident.

They are particularly keen to speak to anyone who may have seen the vehicle overloaded with passengers travelling around the area prior to the collision.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101, quoting log 31 of 27/06/15.