A family who were wrongly told their teenage son had survived a car crash only to find out three weeks later that he had died instantly, said today it felt like they had endured ‘two deaths’.
The parents of Joshua Johnson, 18, spent three weeks at the bedside of the boy who they believed was their unconscious son following the accident in December.
But an ‘unimaginable blunder’ by police saw him mixed up with one of his friends in the car, 17-year-old Trevor Wynn.
It was only when he started to regain consciousness that the real identity of the teenager in hospital emerged.
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