Police mistakenly identify body of teenager killed in car crash

POLICE in the US made a mistake identifying two teenagers in a car crash, leaving one set of parents wrongly thinking their son had died and the other parents keeping a bedside vigil by a hospital bed.

For days, one family kept a vigil for a bandaged-up boy whom they believed was their badly injured 16-year-old son.

Meanwhile, the other family prepared to bury the boy they thought was their dead 17-year-old. However, the moment Patrick Bement’s parents saw the face of the boy in the casket at the funeral home, they knew a terrible mistake had been made.