Meadowhall crash: Inquest to be held into deaths of men who drowned in River Don in Sheffield
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An inquest is to be held today into the deaths of two men who died after the car they were travelling in plunged into the River Don, near Meadowhall.
Tommy, who had a three-month old daughter at the time of the tragedy, and Josh had to be rescued from the water by firefighters but despite efforts to revive them could not be saved.
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Hide AdPolice officers, firefighters and ambulance service workers were all involved in the river rescue mission, with a number of them entering the freezing cold, fast-flowing water in a bid to save the young men.
The car, which Josh had been driving, was on its roof when rescuers arrived at the crash scene.