Touching tributes have been paid to a talented musician who became the third man to die in a horrific head-on crash. 

Corran Powell, known as Coz, was airlifted to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge with life-threatening injuries after the blue Volkswagen Polo he was driving was in collision with a Ford Fiesta in Braintree Road, Gosfield, last Sunday.

The 21-year-old, who worked as a carer and in Cash Converters in Braintree, was placed in a medically-induced coma but his condition took a turn for the worse and his life support machine was switched off on Monday. 

He had suffered a stroke and his brain was swollen and his lungs had collapsed.

The crash claimed the lives of Coz’s friend James Simmons, 18, of Hillside Gardens, Braintree, who was travelling in the back seat of the Polo and David Bradley, 30, of Beckers Green Road, Braintree, who was the driver of the Fiesta.

Both were declared dead at the scene.

The front seat passenger of the Polo, a 16-year-old girl from Braintree, and the front seat passenger of the Fiesta, a woman in her 20s from Suffolk, were taken to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford with serious injuries.

The teenager is now resting at home.

Coz, who lived in Gosfield with his family, was a guitarist and drummer and played in Braintree-based bands Violet Quartz and Quatrium.

See this week's Braintree and Witham Times for the full story.