Emmerdale has confirmed which character died on arrival in the limousine crash storyline.
Multiple characters are currently fighting for their lives following the dramatic accident, with Suzy Merton the first casualty. But Tuesday’s (February 19) episode revealed a second fatality.
Picking up where things left off, this latest instalment began with the four emergency vehicles arriving at the hospital where Jacob Gallagher was on shift.
He soon came across Charity Dingle looking after a barely-conscious Noah, who had seemingly been spiked, and learned about the crash.
He desperately searched for mum Leyla Harding and saw Amy Wyatt and Liam Cavanagh in critical conditions on the way.
Eventually, he managed to find Leyla… lifeless in the morgue.
He refused to believe it, telling the doctor to do something.
“She’s still warm! Why are you standing there? Why aren’t you trying to save her?” he insisted.
Unfortunately, the doctor told him it was too late, and Leyla has died from severe blood loss before she even arrived at the hospital.
Jacob said goodbye to his mum and apologised for not being there for her. Sarah Sugden eventually entered the morgue and hugged him as he wept.
“Devastated to have lost Leyla! What a character. I’m tearing up so much after Jacob this is so sad,” wrote one fan on X/Twitter, while another said: “Layla being DOA and Jacob being on duty has hit me.”
A fourth viewer commented: “Crying my eyes out at #emmerdale Jacob looking for his mum, Leyla, and finding she’d passed was heartbreaking.”
Another praised Jacob actor Joe-Warren Plant for his goodbye speech to Leyla’s body.
Elsewhere in the hospital, the other villagers had to process the news of Suzy and Leyla’s deaths and tried to keep it together not knowing if Amy and Liam were going to pull through.
As the episode approached its cliffhanger, it seemed like Amy might not make it as she began to flatline as Matty Barton and Kerry Wyatt called for help.
𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 “𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒆 & 𝑾𝒆𝒃𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒆: 𝒇𝙞𝒍𝙢𝒔𝙥𝒐𝙞𝒍𝙚𝒓𝙨.𝙞𝒏𝙛𝒐” 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧-𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐞𝐬.
