A teenage driver killed himself and two of his passengers in a fireball crash with a bus when he raced his Mercedes down the wrong side of the road minutes after inhaling ‘hippy crack’.
Jimmy Savory was already disqualified from driving for previous motoring offences despite being just 17 when he consumed nitrous oxide from balloons with friends Star Tomkins, 17, and Harley Woods, 18.
All three died instantly when their speeding car – driven by Savory – collided head-on with a bus at a railway bridge in west London, just before midnight.
The ‘excessive speed’ collision wedged the Mercedes C180 Kompressor under
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