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Second woman dies after bus crash

Google Junction 37 of the A684. It is a two-lane road with a blue sign straightway reading 'The South M6'. There are cars in the distance and two wind turbines on the hills to the right. Google
The crash happened on Thursday

A second woman has died after a crash last week involving a car and a bus.

Cumbria Police said Christine Dale, 77, of Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, died in hospital on Sunday.

She was a passenger in the Hyundai involved in Thursday's crash at junction 37 of the A684 near Kendal.

The driver of the car, 85-year-old Rita Thomas, also of Thornton-Cleveleys, died in hospital on Friday. Police asked anyone with information about the crash to come forward.

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