Motorway crash victims identified

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Five people who were killed in a head-on crash on the M1 in Bedfordshire have been identified.

They died on Saturday night when a VW Passat headed the wrong way up the southbound carriageway near Dunstable and hit a Jaguar, police said.

Lakhdip Nagra, 27, his sister Navjit, 28, their mother Inderjit, 48, all from south-east London and Chain Singh, 66, from India, died in the Jaguar.

The driver of the Passat was Mariusz Adamski, 24, from Leicester.

Police said Mr Adamski was originally from Poland.

Post-mortem examinations are due to be carried out later and inquests will be opened on Wednesday at Bedford's Coroner's Court.

The Nagra family and Mr Singh, an uncle, had been at a family gathering in the Midlands and were returning to their home in Littleheath Road, Bexleyheath, when the crash happened.

Police said the crash occurred shortly before roadworks began on the M1.

The southbound carriageway between junctions 10 and 11 was closed for several hours while police dealt with the scene.