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Dead biker named by police
Aug 28 2007 By Steve Johnson, Birmingham Mail
A TEENAGE motorcyclist killed when his machine burst into flames after ploughing into a car has been named by police.
Iqbal Singh Purewal, aged 18, died in the horrific crash in Dartmouth Street, West Bromwich on Friday night.
The teenager, from the Sandwell area, was taken to Sandwell General Hospital following the crash just after 10pm, but doctors could not save him.
Police said the motorbike was travelling along Dartmouth Street when it collided with the car which was turning right.
A 43-year-old man, a woman and her three children who were in the Ford Granada were unhurt, but badly shaken.
A police spokesman repeated a call for witnesses to the accident to contact the traffic unit at West Bromwich on 0845 1135000.
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