The Parents Were Certain Their Son Was Alive. Police Misidentified the Victims.
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The Johnson family in the UK spent almost three weeks in the head of a teen in a coma, convinced that he was their son, survivor of a fatal road accident on December 13, 2025, near Rotherham. In fact, their son, Joshua Johnson, had died on the night of the accident, and the young man in the hospital was another teenager involved in the same accident, identified by the police as wrong.
The family of a teenager who died in a car crash near the English town of Rotherham believed for weeks that he was alive because of a mistake.
English police made a mistake in identifying the victims of a car crash. For several weeks, the parents believed their son was alive, despite his serious condition. When he awoke, they discovered his friend was in the hospital bed, and their son had died. "This news came as a huge shock to us," says the deceased teenager's father.
Two teenagers were killed in a tragic car crash in Rotherham, England, and a third with serious bodily injuries was taken to hospital. As a result of a fatal mistake by the police during identification, the family of 18-year-old Joshua Johnson was convinced for several weeks that the boy was alive, and watched by his colleague's hospital bed. “I can't fathom it,” says the teenager's father.
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