a significant ongoing storyline for nisha, sammy and owen daniels (danny mccall) came in the summer of 1989, when, following a night out with a group of friends, they were involved in a serious car accident which killed the driver of their car (a young man whom one of their friends had just met in a nightclub). at the inquest some months later, it emerged that all the girls except sammy had been somewhat economical with the truth in order to spare the feelings of the deceased's parents. this, coupled with nisha's progress in her studies (while sammy found herself struggling academically) led to the girls drifting apart, and the character was gradually seen less and less in the series.