The BBC's Clarence Mitchell: "The deaths have knocked the stuffing out of many people"

Driver Peter Mitchell, 41, died at Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra Hospital after the crash in which the Range Rover crossed the central reservation on the A3 (M) into oncoming traffic near Waterlooville, Hampshire, on Monday.

Mr Mitchell's wife, Christine, 39, confirmed that a second victim, Ann Williamson, 30, was engaged to be married to her brother, Kevin Vicars, 24.

Miss Williamson and Doris Hale, 41, both from Portsmouth, died at the scene in the white Daf minibus after the teenage driver of the black four-litre Range Rover reportedly lost control of the vehicle.

Three people in the minibus died in the head-on collision

Mrs Mitchell said: "She and my husband would always sit together at the front of the bus and would chat to each other on their journey.

"I cannot believe he has died in a crash with a boy who was only 14."

According to police the Range Rover was "taken without the owner's consent" from outside the 14-year-old's home in Hampshire. It belonged to a family friend.

The teenager and his two male passengers, aged 15 and 16, have been bailed by Waterlooville police until March.

'He hung his head'

One of the survivors from the minibus, Alicia Clair, 53, from Portsmouth, described how she confronted the teenage driver as she was treated alongside the Range Rover's passengers.

"There were no adults with them, so I asked one of them if he had been driving the other vehicle," she said.

"He said 'Yes' and just hung his head down, looking at the ground.

"I hope he knows what he has got to live with."

Peter Ford: "Pointless stupidity"

The minibus was returning workers from cosmetic company Whitman Laboratories Ltd, part of the Estee Lauder group, when the accident happened at 1530 GMT on Monday.

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."