Three killed in Rainham horror crash named for first time as car ‘lost control due to surface water’

Three people were killed when their car crashed into a stationary van that had been involved in an earlier accident, an inquest has heard.

Sachin Kalia, 19, Davina Kaur Ruprah, 24, and Kiranjeet Sagoo, 36, were travelling westbound on the A13 in east London when their car "lost control due to surface water" shortly after 10pm on July 15 this year, Walthamstow Coroner's Court was told. Police had been called to an earlier collision involving the van but the second crash happened before officers arrived at the scene.

Mr Kalia, a bartender and student from Barking in Essex, Ms Ruprah, a paralegal from Dagenham in Essex, and Mr Sagoo, a customer service adviser from Ilford in Essex, were pronounced dead at the scene in Wennington Marshes, Rainham.