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One dead as car crashes into Costa coffee shop

One person has died after a car crashed into a Costa coffee shop at Westerham in Kent. Several people have been injured.

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Police name pensioner who died in Costa crash

Valerie Deakin died on Christmas Eve after a car crashed into the Costa Coffee shop Credit: Family

A tribute has been issued by the family of a woman following a fatal road traffic collision in Westerham, Kent.

Valerie Deakin, who was 74, died on Christmas Eve after a car crashed into the Costa Coffee shop in The Green. A married mother of two, Valerie lived in the village of Udimore, near Rye, East Sussex.

Tables and chairs were sent flying after the crash Credit: Sally Pendleton/PA Wire

At 10.30am on Christmas Eve, 2015, Val, my lovely wife of 50 years, was enjoying a cuppa inside the Costa Coffee café, Westerham, accompanied by her eldest daughter and best friend. The shock and loss are indescribable. Modest, kind, exceedingly hard working and above all caring she loved all creatures, great and small, with a passion. We adored her. Rest in peace.

– Family statement

Officers from Kent Police's Serious Collision Investigation Unit are continuing to appeal for information. Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or who saw the vehicles before or after the incident and who hasn't already contacted police, is asked to come forward

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