British family die in holiday road smash

Three members of a British family were killed during a holiday in South Africa when their car collided head-on with a truck, it emerged today.

Jeremy Monk and his wife Katherine, both 49, died with daughter Bryony, 21, and her boyfriend.

The crash happened on Tuesday in Saldanha, 80 miles north of Cape Town. The Monks' elder daughter, Freya, 24, who was on a separate holiday at Kruger National Park, flew from Johannesburg to Cape Town yesterday to identify the bodies.

The family is from Mayfield, East Sussex. Mr Monk, a former engineer who had run his own business for a year, had a house in South Africa. Police are investigating the crash. The name of Bryony's boyfriend has not been released.