Family’s ‘unimaginable’ ordeal after police mistakenly told them son survived fatal crash

Joshua Johnson died following a collision in Rotherham on December 13 (Picture: Family Handout/PA)

The family of a teenager killed in a car crash have described going through an ‘unimaginable’ ordeal after police mistakenly told them he had survived.

South Yorkshire Police initially believed Joshua Johnson, 18, was seriously injured in the collision in Rotherham on December 13, and that Trevor ‘TJ’ Wynn and Summer Louise Scott, both 17, had died.

But in an update on Sunday,...