Mourners have gathered for the third A66 crash funeral after a row erupted over the decision to close a number of schools for the first two funerals.
Dozens gathered to pay their respects to Makai Saddington, one of five young men who lost their lives in a horror wrong-way smash in Middlesbrough last month that also killed two police officers.
He is the third VW Passat occupant killed in the crash to be laid to rest, following a service at Teesside Crematorium.
The 18-year-old, alongside Cole Robert Worthy, 17, Theo Rae, 17, Michael Robert Cahill, 23, and Jakub Matusiak, 23, were pronounced dead at
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