POLICE are carrying out forensic examinations to establish who was driving a car that crashed then turned on its roof leaving a teenager with critical injuries earlier this week
Emergency services were called to the accident at Telegraph Road at around 10.15pm on Tuesday.
The car, a red Vauxhall Astra, was found overturned in a field between Mere Lane and the Cottage Loaf pub.
It was understood three people had been in the vehicle, and police at the time believed the driver was an 18-year-old male.
But a police spokesman said tonight: "Our initial investigation indicated that the 18-year-old was the suspected driver.
"However a new allegation has come to light of a fourth person having been in the car.
"Forensic tests are being carried out and we are pursuing a number of lines of inquiry to ascertain who was driving.”
The 18-year-old was taken to Aintree University Hospital in a critical condition.
Paramedics treated the two other victims at the scene before taking them to Royal Liverpool Hospital.
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