A teenage girl who was killed while crossing a busy road may have been egged on by her friends, an inquest has heard. Mya Lawrence, 13, of Whitfield near Dover in Kent, died on October 15 2021 as she was crossing the A256 Whitfield Hill.
She was walking home from a visit to McDonald’s with some friends when she was hit close to a roundabout by a car. An inquest into Mya’s death on Monday was heard at County Hall in Maidstone and coroner Katrina Hepburn confirmed the cause of her death was a road traffic collision.
The court heard that at about 7.40pm Mya and her friends had left McDonald’s and were attempting to cross the A256 before cutting through a gap in a fence to return to the housing estate where they lived. Two of Mya’s friends remembered hearing challenges along the lines of “first one back to the estate”, but it is not known if Mya heard this or not.
