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Ronnie O'Sullivan dramatically cheated death early this morning when his car crashed as he returned home after the snooker world championships.

His six-year-old son Ronnie Jnr was in the passenger seat of the two seater sports car which span out of control on the M1 near Leicester.

Both were able to scramble from the wreckage “shaken” but without any serious injuries.

The car is believed to have hit a patch of standing water before colliding with the central reservation.

Just hours earlier 38-year-old O'Sullivan had the lost the world final to Mark Selby by 18 frames to 14.

He was returning to his home in north east London from the Crucible theatre when the accident happened around 1.30am.

One source said that weather conditions were “poor” at the time of the crash but said that speed was not a factor in the accident.

O'Sullivan's manager, Sonny Nath, confirmed the incident and said: "They are fine.

"They were a bit shaken as you would expect but nobody went to hospital and there was nobody else involved."