'Top 100 Asian Power Couple' wife who died in Iceland bridge crash

This is the first picture of a British mother who died when a 4x4 plunged off a bridge in Iceland in a crash that also killed her baby daughter and injured her financial trader husband.

Rajshree Laturia died when the Land Cruiser smashed through barriers and fell from a road crossing over Skeidararsandur, a vast sand plain in the country's south, yesterday morning. 

Her husband, Shreeraj Laturia, who was driving, was hurt in the fall but their 10-month-old baby died, according to Iceland's Indian embassy.

The Laturias, named in the UK Asian Power Couples Hot 100 list in 2015 for their expertise in finance and charity work, were on a four-day Christmas holiday with the family of Shreeraj's brother, investment banker Supreme, whose wife Khushboo was also killed in the crash. Two other children were injured.

All four adults, British citizens of Indian origin in their 30s, have worked in the City of London. 

Last night there were claims that the seven-seat SUV was being driven 'wildly' before it crashed through barriers and fell more than 26ft in freezing temperatures nearly two hours before sunrise. There were also claims that some of those in the car were not wearing seat belts.

Spanish au pair Monica Fontam, 20, who was working for both couples in London, told MailOnline this morning: 'I'm still in a terrible state of shock, we all are.  





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