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Tribute to crash victim mum-to-be ahead of birthday
Birmingham Mail
|June 18, 2026
HEATHER AND BABY DAUGHTER BOTH DIED IN TRAGEDY
A DEVASTATED family have spoken of losing “two lives and two futures” after a Birmingham mum-to-be died in a car crash.
Heather Allen, from Stechford, was just 25 when a car in which she was travelling hit a tree in Nuneaton last September. She was 23 weeks pregnant and expecting a baby girl called Blossom, who could not be saved.
Heather's friends and relatives will mark what would have been her 26th birthday tomorrow with a memorial night at The Station Inn pub in Stechford from 5pm.
Her sister Myrtle told the Mail about the first birthday without Heather.
This story is from the June 18, 2026 edition of Birmingham Mail.
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