Pictured: British students from Bolivian death crash

The two British students who died in a horror crash in Bolivia on Sunday night when the vehicle they were in flipped were coming to the end of their gap year in the South American country.

Freddie Michael McLennan and George Joseph Atkins, who were both 19 and had studied at Cranbrook grammar school in Kent, were killed when the Toyota Land Cruiser they were sharing with five others crashed.

They were travelling across the Solar de Uyuni slat flats, a vast area of desert which is world-famous and which attracts tens of thousands of tourists each year.

Callum Fraser, also 19 and from Cranbrook, one of few state boarding schools in the country, was injured in the crash and one of his parents is believed to be travelling to Bolivia to be by his side.

He has been taken to the Jose Eduardo Perez hospital in Uyuni, a city 540km south of the country’s capital, La Paz.

The Bolivian driver, Luis Alberto Barco, died in the crash, and three other passengers were injured. They have been named as Walter Rossi, 22, and Francisco Ceruti, 21, who are both Argentinian, and Gabriel Martinez Bueno, 26, from Uruguay.

The local police chief Colonel Bernardo Isnado said that the car is believed to have been speeding.

Isnado told journalists: “Circumstances are being investigated, but according to the preliminary investigations there was an excess of speed.

“The present case is under investigation; it has been brought to the attention of the public ministry.”

A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We are supporting the families of three British nationals who were involved in a car accident in Bolivia and are in close contact with the Bolivian authorities.”

The three British teens were coming to the end of their gap year having finished their A levels and left the Kent school last summer.

McLennan had been a keen sportsman at Cranbrook, and was awarded school colours for his performances, while Atkins had been interested in engineering.