Tributes have been paid to a couple who were killed when an Audi slammed into a taxi they were travelling home in on Saturday night.
Lucy Davis and her partner Lee Jenkins were in the taxi which was involved in a five-car smash in the centre of Birmingham at the weekend, killing six people and seriously injuring one other.
Friends of sign language interpreter Ms Davis and her boyfriend, a scientist at University Hospital Birmingham, have expressed their devastation at the couple’s death.
Ms Davis’s heartbroken sister, Alison Worth, paid tribute to her sister online, saying the couple were travelling home from a ‘lovely day and evening out with friends’.
Lucy Davis was tragically killed when a taxi she was driving in crashed in Birmingham
Ms Davis, 43, and Lee Jenkins, 42, both died when the taxi when they were travelling in was hit head-on by an Audi which mounted the central reservation and flew into the other lane
Ms Worth wrote: ‘They were in a taxi as they wouldn’t think of driving. They were wearing seatbelts as Lulu wouldn’t get in a car if the seatbelts didn’t work.
‘They were happy. They were great together and had so many plans. You will always be in my heart and my thoughts. I miss you so much x’
Last night it emerged that all four men travelling in the Audi S3 involved in the crash in a Birmingham underpass early on Sunday had a keen interest in fast cars as police continued to investigate what caused the horrific collision.
Three of the men – named locally as Jehangir, Tauqeer Hussain, 26, and Mohammed Fahsa, 30 – were killed instantly in the collision, which also involved a seven-seater taxi and a third vehicle in which the two occupants ‘astonishingly’ escaped without serious injury.
Zakkria Khan, 22, a back seat passenger in the Audi, remained seriously ill in hospital last night. All four men in the Audi had been thrown from the 155mph car on impact early on Sunday.