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Mother arrested after fatal road traffic accident

The mother of two children killed in a road traffic accident has been arrested by police on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and stealing a car.

30-year-old Davina Smith is being questioned by detectives about the Essex vehicle accident which claimed the lives of four youngsters. They were all travelling in a stolen Ford Fiesta when it collided with a Vauxhall Corsa.

Smith survived the car crash with back injuries, but her two daughters, Karis Goyette, eight, and Kalli Goyette, four, died from serious personal injuries along with 16-year-olds Lee Gray and Kezia Adger.

Police say they think Ms Smith stole the car from Westcliff-on-Sea the night before the road traffic accident and was on the way to the doctors to get her daughter checked out for a headache when the incident occurred.

She has also been charged with the theft of £200 of fuel, vitamins and hair products from a petrol station and is likely to be held in custody until a trial date can be set.

Davina Smith's solicitor said, "She is consumed by grief. She has to come to terms with what has happened, the death of her two children and the deaths of two other individuals."

Visiting the scene of the road traffic accident, Marina Gray, mother of victim Lee, wept, “Our world has been ripped apart so cruelly and this is a tragic loss of a life that should have been just beginning.

"What else can I say? Part of me died the day Lee died."