A teenage joyrider who was badly hurt when the stolen car he was driving ploughed into a wall and burst into flames has died in hospital.

Martin Kirk, 16, from Blackbird Leys, Oxford, and two other youths were in a stolen Vauxhall Belmont car which crashed near the Coach and Horses pub, in Chislehampton, near Stadhampton, on Saturday morning.

Paramedics took the youth to the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, with serious head and pelvic injuries, but he died early yesterday. The two passengers in the car, who have not been named, were treated at the scene. One had a broken wrist and the other pelvic injuries.

Fire station officer Trevor Cox, who attended the accident, said: "It looks like the car hit one wall with some force, bounced across the road and hit another wall. There was a fire in the engine which quickly engulfed the whole car."

The scene of the crash is a well-known accident blackspot. The road surface was wet at the time of the crash.

Police have launched an investigation to establish the cause of the accident.

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