Accident verdict on M6 death.Byline: By Paul Suart A 20-YEAR-OLD man died on the M6 near Birmingham in the worst crash scene ever witnessed by a senior road safety officer. Mohammed Irfaan Khan was killed instantly when his Mercedes 08 model ploughed into the back of an 18-tonne lorry on a stretch of road works close to junction seven on the northbound carriageway. At an inquest into his death, PC Ellis, an experienced collisions investigator with West Midlands Police West Midlands Police is the Home Office police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second largest in the United Kingdom after London's Metropolitan Police [1]. It covers an area with nearly 2. , told assistant coroner Stephen Campbell there was no problem with lighting, roadwork road·work n. 1. Sports Outdoor long-distance running as a form of physical exercise or conditioning. 2. The activity of taking a band, typically a rock band, on extended tours. 3. Highway construction. signage and the road surface in the lead up to the horrific accident. "It was the most severely damaged car I have ever seen including other motorway fatalities and high speed accidents," he said. PC Ellis estimated from CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television footage that Mr Khan, from Stoke, was travelling between 56mph and 94mph when he veered into the lorry shortly after 1.30am on January 16, 2008. Coroner Campbell recorded a verdict of accidental death. |
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