School tributes for crash girls

Jennifer Stoddart (left), 15, and her sister Claire, 18, died in the crash

Special assemblies have been held at a school in Suffolk to remember three teenagers who died in a road crash early on Saturday morning.

Driver Claire Rebecca Stoddart, 18, her sister Jennifer 15, and Carla Took, 18, all from Lowestoft, Suffolk, were in a Vauxhall Astra.

It collided with a Renault Laguna on the A12 at Blythburgh, killing Simon Bonner, 40, from Yoxford, Suffolk.

The three girls went to the Benjamin Britten High School in Lowestoft.

Trevor Osborne, head teacher at the school, described the teenagers as "wonderful children".

"The three girls were outstanding students, two of whom were in the sixth form, had finished their 'A' Levels and were expecting to go to university this summer," he said.

Carla Took's family paid tribute to the "perfect daughter"

He said the girls had very supportive and loving families and very good friends who had known them for many years and it was "an enormous loss".

Carla Took's family said in a statement: "Carla was the perfect daughter with so many friends.

"All that knew her loved her."

The three teenagers were returning home from a Red Hot Chilli Peppers' concert in Ipswich when the accident happened.

Four other people are in hospital with serious injuries.

A statement from the parents of the two sisters Heather and Phil Stoddart said: "Although devastated by the tragic news of the death of two of our daughters, Claire and Jenny, we have been overwhelmed by the support received.

"This support represents a fitting tribute to the wonderful daughters they both were."