Teen driver killed three people – and leaving three others seriously injured – in a horror car crash just weeks after passing his test.
The driver identified as Edward Spencer had been due to go on trial over the deaths of the three teenagers who were killed in April 2023 as they travelled home from school.
But the case was instead listed for a plea hearing this morning in which the 19-year-old admitted three counts of causing death by careless driving.
Matilda Seccombe, the 16-year-old daughter of a parish councillor, Harry Purcell, a 17-year-old twin, and Frank Wormald, 16, were being driven in Spencer’s Ford Fiesta when it crashed on the B4035.
A source told the Mail Spencer, a keen rugby player, had only passed his driving test around five weeks before the crash.
Spencer and the three dead were all sixth form students at Chipping Campden School, an Ofsted-rated ‘outstanding’ former grammar which was founded almost 600 years ago.
A woman and two children travelling in a second vehicle, a Fiat, were also hospitalised after the collision at Stretton-on-Fosse, Warwickshire, which saw four air ambulances attend the scene.
The children in the Fiat were aged 10 and 12 at the time.
Spencer admitted three counts of causing serious injury by careless driving in relation to those victims during the brief hearing at Warwick Crown Court.
Judge Andrew Lockhart KC adjourned the hearing for a pre-sentence report and released Spencer on conditional bail. But he warned the defendant that he faced a jail sentence when he returns for sentencing next month.
