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Family Speaks Out After Spending Hours at Teen's Bedside After Horror Crash - to Find Out Their Son Died Weeks Ago - Yorkshire Live

South Yorkshire Police self-refer to the Independent Office for Police Conduct after fatal crash identity error caused distress to families involved.

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Joshua Johnson's family have spoken of their "unimaginable" grief after finding out the teenager they were supporting back to health wasn't their son

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Teenage victim of fatal crash misidentified due to police error

His family reported the possibility of a mix up following the tragic car accident on December 13

·Hull, United Kingdom
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Police told wrong family their boy died in crash after officer handed photo ID

Joshua Johnson, 18, died following a collision in Rotherham on December 13 - the identiny of the teen was originally given as Trevor Wynn, 17

·London, United Kingdom
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Police Exchange Identity Victims Accident: Family Believes Son Died for 3 Weeks

For three weeks a family believed that their son had died in a car accident. Then the discovery: the boy was alive, hospitalized, while the victim was another young man. This is what happened in South Yorkshire, in the north of England, where the police admitted to having exchanged the identities of two teenagers involved in a serious automobile accident occurred on December 13 near Rotherham. The story was rebuilt by the BBC, which reports the …

·Rome, Italy
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Tributes paid to ‘loveable’ boy after police mistakenly told family he survived crash

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

·London, United Kingdom
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Family speaks out after spending hours at teen's bedside after horror crash - to find out their son died weeks ago - Yorkshire Live

Joshua Johnson's family have spoken of their "unimaginable" grief after finding out the teenager they were supporting back to health wasn't their son

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Family's 'unimaginable pain' as cops mistakenly identify wrong body after horror crash

Joshua Johnson's family thought they were keeping vigil at his hospital bedside after police mistakenly identified the wrong victim of a horror crash in Rotherham

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