A teenager was arrested after a boy died in a fatal collision following a police pursuit, Avon and Somerset Police has said.

The boy who died at the scene was a passenger in a white Nissan Juke which was in a collision with a black Audi S3 in south Bristol just after 4am on Sunday morning.

Avon and Somerset Police said it happened on the A37 Wells Road at its junction with Airport Road and Wootton Park.

The force said: “It followed a short police pursuit involving an unmarked police vehicle and the white Nissan Juke.

“Sadly, one person – a teenage boy who was a passenger in the white Nissan Juke – died at the scene.”

Two other teenage children from the Nissan were taken to hospital with injuries not thought to be life-threatening, along with the man driving the Audi.

“Officers later arrested a 17-year-old boy at a residential property on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving,” police said.

“This young person was taken to hospital for assessment and discharged.…