TWO women killed when their car was in collision with an ambulance on the A25 at Westerham last Thursday afternoon were sisters.

Police have named them as 71-year-old Mary Price, of Sundridge, near Sevenoaks, and Dorothy Sandwell, 67, of Sevenoaks.

Another woman in the car, Sheila Khan, 59, is still in a stable but critical condition in Maidstone Hospital.

When the crash happened the ambulance involved was responding to a an emergency call. The ambulance crew suffered shock but were uninjured.

Relatives said the two dead sisters, who were part of a four-generation Kent family, were "much loved" and would be "sadly missed".

In a statement issued through Kent Police, they said: "They were travelling back to their mother's house when the collision occurred. Typically, they were out together, enjoying each other's company as they so often did."