South Yorkshire police told wrong family teenager had died in crash

Both families will be offered support from specialist services after mix-up in mid-December

The family of a teenager badly injured in a car crash were told that he had died following a mistake in identifying him and another victim, police have said.

South Yorkshire police said it had referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over the mis-identification, which happened after a serious collision on Todwick Road in Rotherham on 13 December.