Neighbours tell of ‘desperate’ battle to save boy, 17, dying in Barnet car crash

Frith Lane at the scene of the collision

(Picture: John Dunne)

Witnesses told how they tried to save a teenager who died after the car he was in ploughed into a tree in north London.

The 17-year-old passenger sustained fatal injuries when the vehicle veered off Frith Lane, Barnet, after a minor collision with a taxi.