Three people died in the head-on collision with a stolen car outside Ballybogey, County Antrim on Friday.

Charmaine Watson, 27, from Woodvale Road, Belfast died at the scene of the crash. Her husband Justin, 24, lost his fight for life in hospital on Saturday morning, after undergoing surgery.

Tyler Watson is critically ill in hospital

The couple's son Tyler, who was also involved in the accident, is described as critically ill at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.

Family wait for news

Members of the Watson family have been keeping a vigil at the child's bedside.

Relatives are also caring for the couple's six-year-old daughter Connie, who was not with them at the time of the accident.

Inspector Allan Barton: "Cavalier travelling at over 100 mph"

The Watsons were on their way to a caravan when a stolen Vauxhall Cavalier crashed into their Vauxhall Corsa car at high speed on the main Ballymoney to Portrush Road.

A passenger in the stolen car, Brian Donnelly from west Belfast, also died.

Two men who were in the stolen car are still seriously ill. One is in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast and the other at the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald. A third man is in a stable condition at Coleraine Hospital.

Brenda King, an aunt of Justin Watson, hit out at joyriders on Saturday, and said: "We just cannot take it in.

"It's bad enough to lose one parent, but two being killed, leaving these two little ones orphans, is just dreadful.

"My sister Kathleen was with Justin when he passed away and she just felt like pushing his bed up to the joyriders and saying: `look what you've done'."

Emergency services rush to the scene of the fatal crash

She said the couple, who were married for five years, had just moved into a new home and were looking forward to a family holiday at relative's caravan in Portrush.

Mr Watson's mother, Dorothy, who lives in America, will return to Northern Ireland for the funeral.

The minister for the Waston family, the Rev Gregory Dunstan said they are finding it difficult to cope with the tragedy.

Rev Gregory Dunstan: Family are devastated

"They are utterly devastated," he said. "They can hardly comprehend what's happened. There's a terrible sense of shock, initially of disbelief. Now of terrible pain, and grief and anger. "

Coleraine Mayor Norman Hillis says it is one of the worst ever accidents in the north west of the province.

"Anyone I have spoken to has been really, really shocked by this horrific crash," he said.

"It's really too terrible for words. Certainly everybody down here is thinking about the families of the bereaved."

Police confirmed the stolen vehicle had sped away from a police patrol near Ballybogey and hit three other cars before the head on collision.