Family of teen killed when car drove into River Wear pay tribute to their ‘beautiful girl’

Zara Shaw died along with two other teenagers when an Audi A3 veered off the bridge and into the River Wear (Picture: Family handout/PA Wire)

The family of a 16-year-old girl killed with two friends when their car veered into a river has paid tribute.

The death of three teenagers shocked Sunderland on Tuesday after a car they were travelling in plunged into the River Wear.

Zara Shaw,  from Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, died alongside Jackson Duke, 17, and Luke Etheridge, 16, when the vehicle crashed off a bridge and sank into the water.

Her heartbroken family said in a statement: ‘Zara, you came into this world with a fight, and we know you left it doi...