POLICE have released a photograph of the two cousins who tragically died after the car they were in crashed into a tree near Millom.

Aaron and Dean Heasley were driving along the A5093 between The Hill junction and Million junction at around 9.30pm on Monday, November 23.

Their blue VW Golf left the road at a left hand bend near Ghyll Scaur Quarry and collided with a tree.

Aaron, 24, of Victoria Street, Millom, and Dean Heasley, 24, of Settle Street, Millom, were both pronounced dead at the scene.

A 26-year-year old man, who had been sitting in the rear seat of the car, was taken to Furness General Hospital with serious leg injuries.