Liverpool Echo reports. Emergency services were called to the scene at 12:30am after the car crashed into a taxi. Paige Rice, 22, from Birmingham, who was a passenger in the Audi died in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The taxi driver, a man in his 40s, also suffered serious injuries but his condition is not believed to be life-threatening. It is believed that the Audi S3 was involved in another crash before the fatal crash in the tunnel.
Matrix Inspector Mark Worrell, from Merseyside Police, said: "Our thoughts go out to the family of the woman who died and those who were injured in this collision.
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