A driver has been rushed to hospital after a crash between a broken-down bus and a van on a busy road today,
08.11.2023 - 14:01 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A mum-of-five was found to have taken a potentially fatal level of heroin when she drove a BMW straight into the path of a van travelling on the A16, killing both herself and the other driver.
An inquest was told Mikah Chandler, 45, from Grimsby and the van driver Graham Ross, 34, both died instantly in the head-on crash on the southbound carriageway at North Thoresby at around 9am on April 24, this year, reports Grimsby Live.
Ms Chandler was driving her boyfriend's BMW towards Grimsby but had no driving licence or insurance. A subsequent post mortem examination revealed both drivers died from multiple injuries.
A toxicology report after the incident revealed Ms Chandler had "a potentially fatal amount of heroin in her system." Lincolnshire coroner, Paul Cooper said there was also cocaine, pregabalin and diazepam in her blood.
Dashcam footage of the crash from Mr Ross' grey Ford van showed that the black BMW pulled out from behind a Ford Kuga into the path of the van. A forensic collision investigation report concluded Mr Ross would have had just one second in time to react.
In his conclusion, Mr Cooper said there was nothing the van driver could have done to avoid the head-on collision and said both drivers died from multiple injuries as a consequence of a road traffic collision.
Mr Cooper said: "All those substances should not have been in her system as she drove. Mr Ross was the most unlucky man on this road in the wrong place at the wrong time on this day."
He added: "It is a tragedy this happened." He gave his condolences to the family of Mr Ross and the mother of Mikah Chandler.
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