A man has been arrested after a pensioner died in a motorway crash on Christmas Day.
The woman – in her eighties from the Durham area – was a passenger in a white Ford Fiesta when it collided with a black Volkswagen Tiguan.
She suffered serious injuries and died at the scene of the crash shortly after 8.30 pm on the northbound carriageway between Junction 57 and Junction 58 near Darlington.