Crash that left four British teenagers dead avoidable: inquest

A crash that claimed the lives of four British teenage boys when they drowned in an overturned car was avoidable, an inquest has been told.

Hugo Morris, 18, Harvey Owen, 17, Wilf Fitchett, 17, and Jevon Hirst, 16, were killed when their car left a road in North Wales while they were driving on a camping holiday last November.

The inquest into the deaths of the boys, who were all from the English county of Shropshire, was held on Wednesday, reports the BBC.

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The Ford Fiesta car they were travelling in driven by Hug flipped and finished in a flooded ditch, leaving the students trapped.

The vehicle could not be seen from the road and sparked a two-day search to find the boys.

It was eventually spotted by a passing truck. All four teenagers were found dead inside.

They all had died from drowning, the inquest heard.

Police crash investigators said Hugo had driven into a bend on the road too fast, even though the car may have been travelling below the 96km/h speed limit.

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But they said the crash was "avoidable".

Senior coroner Kate Robertson said she would be writing to the UK government about her concerns over newly qualified drivers being able to carry passengers.

Tributes to the boys were also read out at the inquest.

Harvey's mother Crystal said he was "perfect from the minute he came into the world and continued to be until he was tragically taken from us".

She said "every parent's worst nightmare came true" last November.

Heather Sanderson, Wilf's mother, said she was "very proud" of her son, who was "so kind and had a lovely sense of humour".

"I will miss him for the rest of my life."

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