A 17-year-old girl has died after the car she was driving veered off the road and crashed into a tree in Kent, leaving two teenage passengers injured, with police now appealing for dashcam footage to help establish what happened.
The collision occurred last night when a blue Seat Ibiza Xcellence left the road at a junction between Headcorn and Staplehurst and struck a tree. Emergency services, including paramedics and Kent Fire and Rescue Service, were scrambled to the scene, but the teenage driver was pronounced dead on arrival. Her next of kin have been informed.
Police said the two passengers in the car were also injured in the crash. A 19-year-old man was taken to a London hospital in a life-threatening condition, while a 17-year-old boy was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries.
Kent Police is appealing for witnesses, CCTV and dashcam footage from the area, urging anyone who saw the incident itself or who saw the vehicle in the lead-up to the collision to come forward.
