Three teens die in horror smash

Updated 18.31 Tue Jan 01 2008
Keywords: bus, crash

Three teenagers died and two were seriously injured when their car smashed into a bus.

Two girls aged 15 and 16 and the male driver, 18, were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash in southeast London.

Two girls aged 15 and 16 and the male driver, 18, were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash in southeast London

The survivors, a boy and a girl both aged 17, had to be cut out of the wreckage of the Peugeot 106.

Both are in hospital in a serious condition.

The driver of the bus, which was not in service at the time, escaped unhurt.

The car collided with the 453 bendy bus near the junction of Little Heath and Cemetery Lane in Charlton.

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