43 m. ago Bungling police told wrong family their son had died in car crash after 'mixing up IDs found at the scene'

The unimaginable blunder - which saw the fate of two boys' families swapped for 22 agonising days - is now being investigated by the police watchdog.

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2 h. ago ‘Something gone very wrong’ after car crash teenagers misidentified – watchdog

The Independent Office for Police Conduct said the mistake had had ‘awful consequences’ for the two families as it started an investigation.

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14 h. ago Family pay tribute to ‘loveable’ teenager after police mistakenly told them he survived car crash

Joshua Johnson confirmed as having died three weeks after Rotherham crash in an ‘appalling’ mix-up by officers

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15 h. ago Parents say Geico refused claim after car crash because their baby and toddler weren’t listed on insurance policy

The Michigan parents were on the hook for up to $15,000 worth of damage

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16 h. ago 'Why are you calling me Josh?' The moment teenager believed dead in car crash regained consciousness and revealed police's terrible mistake

Bungling officers had confused the identity of Trevor Wynn, 17, with that of his friend Joshua Johnson, 18, following a fatal collision in Rotherham in the early hours of December 13.

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24 h. ago Family forced into 'important update' after 'dead' teen son suddenly wakes from coma

Police said a boy was killed in a horror car crash just days before Christmas, but his family issued a shocking update about the teenager just three weeks later

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24 h. ago Teen whose family was wrongly told by police he'd died in car crash pictured

South Yorkshire Police wrongly told a family their son died in a deadly road collision, leaving the devastated family planning his funeral at Christmas - this teen woke up from a coma but another young man had died

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24 h. ago Pictured: Teen who died in car crash but whose parents spent three weeks believing he was alive after police blunder

The family of Joshua Johnson, 18, were mistakenly informed by officers that he had survived a collision near Rotherham which claimed the lives of two others.

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28 h. ago BBC Breakfast's Sally Nugent says 'it's terrible' as grieving mum opens up on loss

Presenters Sally Nugent and Jon Kay spoke to a mum whose 18-year-old daughter was killed in a car crash

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28 h. ago Family had to wait three weeks to find out their ‘dead’ son was actually alive

A heartbroken family was told their teenager died in a horror car crash but that boy woke up in a hospital bed weeks later and told doctors his name

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31 h. ago Woman in 60s dies after layby car crash in Hertfordshire as police arrest Porsche driver

A grey Porsche Cayenne, a red Fiat 500 and a white Volvo Tipper lorry were involved in a crash in Broxbourne on Monday, January 5 - a woman in her sixties died at the scene

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42 h. ago Police wrongly told parents their teenage son died in car crash

Officers apologised after mixing up a victim who was killed with one who was unconscious

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42 h. ago Family of teenager wrongly told by police he died in crash in ‘appalling’ mix

Officers mix up victim who was killed with one who was unconscious

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42 h. ago 'Traumatic' as police tell wrong family their teenage son has died after horror car crash

Police said they mixed up the identities of two boys

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43 h. ago Parents mistakenly told son, 17, survived fatal car crash – only for cops to admit 22 days later they had wrong victim

A DEVASTATED mum and dad were told their teen son had survived a fatal crash - only for bungling cops to admit they had the wrong victim. South Yorkshire Police issued a statement confirming Trevor Wynn, 17, had died in a horror smash along with a 17-year-old girl on December 13. Joshua Johnson, 18, was...

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43 h. ago Police tell wrong family their teenager had died after fatal crash

South Yorkshire Police say they mixed up the identities of two teen boys involved in a car crash - one was killed while the other was sedated in hospital - telling the wrong family their son had died

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44 h. ago Top Russian army officer killed in 'suspicious car crash' in latest odd death

Colonel Erik Selimov was killed in a road accident near Alchevsk in Ukraine's occupied region of Luhansk on Sunday alongside three others as Russia shows no sign of stopping its brutal war

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44 h. ago Rep Jim Baird, 80, and his wife rushed to hospital after ‘pretty bad’ car crash, Trump says

Trump gave an update on the couple’s condition in a speech to GOP lawmakers

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47 h. ago Bride miraculously survives car crash but is killed by lorry seconds later

Newly-wed, Samara Prado Martin 24, pulls herself from a flipped car but another tragedy struck as she was then killed by passing lorry moments later

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47 h. ago Two teenagers killed in horror crash as car 'swerves off country road'

Two teenagers died and a third was injured after their car left a country road near the Kent town of Sittingbourne on Saturday evening

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