A baby girl has survived a road crash that claimed the lives of her mother and three other members of her family as they travelled home from an outing to the seaside.

Holly Hind, aged 18 months, was rescued from the back seat of the wreckage after the family car was in a pile-up with a fuel tanker and a van on the A44 country road at Llangurig, near Aberystwyth, west Wales.

The child's mother, Alison Hind, 28, was killed along with her uncle, Martyn Pugh, 47, and Pugh's parents-in-law, John and Margaret Kehoe, 72 and 65.

Holly, who was found in a child seat in the back of the car next to her mother, was flown by air ambulance to hospital in Cardiff where she is in a serious condition but is expected to survive.

Police are investigating the cause of the crash at a well-known accident spot. The road was closed after the accident. John Wall, a resident nearby, said: "There's been so many accidents on the road over the years. It's the first fatality this year, although in previous years there have been many. It's been described in the past as one of the most dangerous roads in the UK."

A Dyfed-Powys police spokesman said: "Tragically two men and two women sustained fatal injuries in the collision, and a female infant remains in the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff in a serious condition. All five were travelling in the car, and they were all from the Llanidloes area. Next of kin have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers."