A young gym manager died in a head-on crash after her car was believed to stray onto the wrong side of the road while she ate fast food. Anna Ledgar, 28, was driving her Seat Leon along B5030 Ashbourne Road, between Uttoxeter and Rocester, shortly before 1pm on October 18.
Moments before the incident, she had pulled out of a KFC drive-thru with a food order. An inquest heard that her car either drifted or swerved over the central white line and into the path of an oncoming Peugeot taxi.
PC Sarah Mulvey, a forensic collision investigator, said there was no evidence of any braking before the impact or any obstruction on the road - however, food was found on the Seat's deployed airbag. Acting South Staffordshire senior coroner Andrew Barkley said it ‘suggested very strongly’ that Anna was eating at the time of the crash.
