FOUR teenagers were told today to expect a jail sentence for their part in a road crash which killed a 12-year-old girl.

Alice Greenwood died after 18-year-old Andrew Sellers lost control of his Vauxhall Corsa and veered in to her mother's oncoming car on the A52 near Kirk Langley.

Liam Connell, 16, his front seat passenger, was also killed in the crash on October 20.

Alice's six-year-old sister Clara survived the collision but her mother Juliette, the driver of the family's VW Passat, suffered serious leg injuries and still walks with a stick.

Police found Andrew and Liam were travelling back to Ashbourne at speed in a convoy of five cars from a McDonald's in Derby when the crash happened.

Today their friends, Joseph Gregson, 19, and 18-year-olds Liam Sowter, David Edge and Oliver Beresford, who were in the convoy, were told they face jail.

At Derby Crown Court, they each admitted three counts of careless driving for their part in the crash.

Judge John Gosling told the defendants they had committed a "grave crime".

He said: "I want it to be made clear that by granting you bail it is not an indication in any way of your sentence.

"I think, frankly, it would be inconceivable that anything other than a substantial custodial sentence will be appropriate."

They will be sentenced on September 4, along with two other teenagers who admitted making false statements to police.