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Tuesday, January 5, 1999 Published at 15:24 GMT

Boy, 14, at wheel of death crash car

Witnessess saw the Range Rover career out of control

A 14-year-old boy was driving a Range Rover that was involved in a crash in which three people died.

Three youths drove off in the car after it was left outside the youth's home in Hampshire by a family friend.

[ image: Three people in the minibus died in the head-on collision]
Three people in the minibus died in the head-on collision
Three people in a works minibus died when the Range Rover careered over the central reservation on the A3(M) in Hampshire.

The 14 year old and two other youths have been bailed by police until March.

Minibus driver Peter Mitchell and two women passengers being taken to work died when the Range Rover hit the minibus head-on.

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Mr Mitchell's boss, Peter Ford, owner of Strand Motors in Southsea, Portsmouth said: "We are absolutely devastated by his death.

"He was a decent man doing a day's work and he has been killed by pointless stupidity."

The remaining six passengers in the minibus were taken to hospital with cuts and bruises. The three teenagers were unhurt.

Witnesses said the car went out of control before hitting the minibus, which was taking shift workers to cosmetics firm Whitman Laboratories in Petersfield, Hampshire at 1530 GMT on Monday.