Family tribute to loving couple killed in car crash
ALOVING couple killed in a multi-car crash were “great together” and looking forward to their future, relatives have said.
Mother-of-two Lucy Davis, 43, and her 42-year-old partner Lee Jenkins were passengers in a taxi caught up in a deadly crash in Birmingham in the early hours of Sunday.
The pair were among six people, including three friends in an Audi S3 and the cab’s driver, who were all killed after a collision involving the cars on Lee Bank Middleway.
In a heartfelt tribute to Ms Davis, who had a son and a daughter, sister Alison Worth described her as “beautiful, kind and lovely”.
She told how the couple’s “lovely day and evening” with friends had ended in tragedy, adding: “Life is cruel.”
Describing the family’s “almost unbearable” pain at the loss, Mrs Worth was also adamant Ms Davis and Mr Jenkins, a clinical scientist at the city’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital, “were wearing seatbelts” in the taxi.
She said: “They were in a taxi as they wouldn’t think of driving.
“They were wearing seatbelts as Lulu (Lucy) wouldn’t get in a car if the seatbelts didn’t work.”
Paying tribute to the couple on Facebook, Mrs Worth added: “They were happy. They were great together and had so many plans.
“You will always be in my heart and my thoughts. “I miss you so much x.” A statement, issued through the police by the wider family, said she “brought happiness to the lives of all she met”, adding: “Rest in Peace our Lady in Red.”
Ms Davis, a sign language interpreter from Kingstanding, Birmingham, was also described as “friendly” and “always smiling” by shocked neighbours.
Her children are now thought be staying with grandparents and on Tuesday the family’s semi-detached home, with Christmas decorations in the windows, was quiet.
Mr Jenkins’ colleagues at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust also paid tribute, with one saying “you could not have met a more genuine, wonderful man”.
In a statement, his employer said: “The trust extends its deepest condolences to the family of Lee Jenkins and also to his friends and colleagues at this very sad time.”
The other four people who died were the taxi’s driver, Imtiaz Mohammed, and three men in an Audi Tauqeer Hussain, Kasar Jehangir and Mohammed Fasha.
Cab driver Mr Mohammed, 33, from Small Heath, Birmingham, had only rung his wife moments before the crash, telling her he would be home for supper.
His younger brother, Noorshad Mohammed, said: “It was his last job of the night.
“That was the last time she spoke to him.”
Older sister Nassrin Bibi said the family had been left “shattered”.
Mr Jehangir, who was in the Audi, was reportedly jailed in November 2016 after being involved in a 130mph motorway chase on the M6, near Walsall in summer 2015.
He later pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and possession with intent to supply.
It is understood the 25-year-old along with Mr Fasha, 30, and Mr Hussain, 26, were thrown from their car in the pile-up, near the city centre.
A 22-year-old man, also in the Audi, remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition.
Post mortem examinations are expected to be concluded on Tuesday, while the police investigation