A RESTAURANT worker died when his new car was involved in a crash which also claimed the lives of a friend and a woman motorist.

Mohammed Toybur Rahman, 21, of Brougham Street, Burnley, was killed in a collision at a notorious accident blackspot on the A483 between Wrexham and Oswestry at 2.30am yesterday.

Today his wife, Shala, who he married eight months ago, and his parents, Mohibur and Baharjan Rahman, were mourning at their home in Stoneyholme with other members of the family.

Burnley-born Mohammed attended Barden High School and has many friends in the town.

He had been working as a waiter at a restaurant in Wrexham and is understood to have been driving back to the place nearby where he had been staying when the accident happened.

His father said he had only owned the G-registered blue Vauxhall for a few weeks and they were told of the tragedy by police yesterday morning.

He said: "It is a great shock to us all".

He said Mohammed would be buried in Burnley.

A police investigation has been launched into the accident, which involved three cars.

Police said a blue Peugeot, travelling towards Wrexham, collided with Mohammed's Vauxhall Cavalier on the Ruabon bypass between Chirk and Ruabon, near Oswestry, Shropshire.

Mohammed's passenger and work colleague Saybul Haque, 21, of Walsall, was also killed, as was a 45-year-old woman from Wrexham who was driving the Peugeot car.

A third car, an Astra, was found on its roof at the scene after somersaulting down a nearby embankment.

The driver was taken to the Wrexham Maelor Hospital, but was released a short time later suffering from shock.