UPHOLSTERER Lee Sheridan was killed when he lost control of his car after negotiating a bend, an inquest heard.>

Driver died after he lost control of car on a bend

Picture shows Lee Sheridan

UPHOLSTERER Lee Sheridan was killed when he lost control of his car after negotiating a bend, an inquest heard.

Mr Sheridan, 21, of Redman Road, High Wycombe, was killed when his H-reg Peugeot 309 was involved in a collision with a C-reg Volkswagen Golf on the A4010, at Saunderton, on October 3, last year.

Golf driver Julie Phillips, of Manor Road, Wendover, suffered a broken ankle in the accident. Her boyfriend Mark Hasted, 27, of Stokes Lane, Haddenham, a passenger in the car, suffered a broken collarbone.

Miss Phillips, who was travelling from High Wycombe, told the inquest that shortly before the crash: "Mark said something along the lines of 'What the hell.' I then saw two sets of headlamps travelling towards me. The vehicles had just exited a bend.

"I began braking. The first vehicle was weaving from left to right. Suddenly the vehicle came diagonally towards my Golf. This was the last thing I saw as I closed my eyes. I then heard a large bang."

Accident investigator PC Duncan Thurlwell, of Aylesbury police, said of the 'weaving' described by Miss Phillips: "It's a classic movement for a vehicle going into a critical state. The driver has allowed his vehicle to drift to its off-side."

He told the inquest that he estimates Mr Sheridan was travelling at 61mph just before he collided with the Golf.

Bucks Coroner Richard Hulett recorded a verdict of accidental death.

He said: "I think factually how Mr Sheridan came to die is plain. There is not any controversy about it.

"I don't know his precise speed as he entered that bend. I think it was comparatively fast. It was probably too fast in the circumstances and for whatever reason he had begun to lose control.

"Unfortunately there was a vehicle and a large impact.

"He died as a result of the head injuries he sustained in that impact," he said.

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