These are the two young friends who were killed in a crash along with the woman they wee travelling with.
Ciprian Merlă and his friend Jony, crashed on the A427 in Northamptonshire yesterday when their Peugeot 407 collided with a Ford Focus.
The two Romanians, both 22 years old, died in the crash alongside a 40-year-old woman.
Jony, left, and Ciprian, right were killed in a car crash yesterday in Northamptonshire in a collision that left an unidentified woman dead and a man in critical condition
The Ford Focus’s driver – a 23-year-old male – was rushed to hospital in a critical condition. His current condition is not known.
Police reported the crash happened between Dingley and Market Harborough at about 7.20am.
Ciprian and Jony were today named by friends and Romanian media as the crash victims.
Tributes to the two Romanians today named them as the victims of yesterday’s horror crash
Jony’s friend Seby told Mirror Online: ‘He was my close friend. I still have no words, I was shocked when I heard about the tragedy. I miss him very much.’
Another uploaded a picture of Jony posing with a car on Facebook, accompanied by the lyrics to Wiz Khalifa song See You Again.
Bogdan Dony posted: ‘It’s been a long day without you, my friend. And I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again.’
Jony’s cousin wrote: ‘I never imagined you were going to leave so early.’
Another friend said: ‘Jony, there are only memories, memories that make me smile and for that thank you! Farewell, my friend!’
His grieving girlfriend, Cerasela, yesterday changed her cover picture to a picture of Jony with a dog.
One friend posted a tribute to Ciprian saying: ‘I know you’re watching us and you’re going to help us through this sad news.’
It is not known whether Ciprian and Jony were on holiday at the time of the deadly crash. The pair have not yet been formally identified by police.
It is unknown whether Jony, left, and Ciprian, right, were on a holiday at the time of the crash
The woman who died in the crash is thought to Romanian. Officers originally thought she was 20-years-old, but have since corrected this.
Her identity, along with the injured male who was travelling in the Ford Focus, remains unknown.
Police want to speak to anyone who may have seen the crash, which closed the road until about 3.30pm as officers investigated the scene.
A police spokesperson said yesterday: ‘Sadly three people, two men aged 22 and a 40-year-old woman, all travelling in a silver Peugeot 407, died as a result of the collision.
‘A fourth man, aged 23, who was travelling in a grey Ford Focus was taken to University Hospital Coventry in a critical condition.
‘Officers investigating the collision would like to speak to anyone who may have witnessed it or anyone who may have seen the cars in the minutes prior to the collision.’