THE parents of a teenager who died after a car crash in Wirral said they were mourning the loss of a “remarkable and inspirational” son.

Jonathan Brown, 17, was a passenger in a black Ford Fiesta which collided with a Nissan Micra shortly before 4pm on Thursday. He died a short time later in hospital.

His 12-year-old brother, Harry, three school friends and two elderly women who were travelling in the Micra are still in hospital after the crash on Telegraph Road, near Heswall.

In a moving tribute to the Calday Grammar School student, Diane and Scott Brown said: “Jonathan was a truly remarkable and inspirational son, full of life, love and had a wicked sense of humour. His caring nature touched everyone who met him. Jonathan had an exciting adult life ahead of him which had only just begun. Sadly this was cruelly taken from him at such an early age.

“The tragic events that unfolded last Thursday evening have devastated our family and the void that remains through Jonathan’s untimely passing can only be described as unbearable.