Car crash victims in identity mix-up

Police 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.

Car crash victims in identity mix-up

Police 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.

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