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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

Coroner raises concerns over new drivers taking passengers after north Wales crash

Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Hugo Morris and Wilf Fitchett
Clockwise from top left: Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Hugo Morris and Wilf Fitchett. Photograph: North Wales police/PA

A coroner has raised concerns about young, newly qualified drivers being allowed to carry passengers, during an inquest into the deaths of four teenagers who drowned after a crash in north Wales.

Hugo Morris, 18, Harvey Owen, 17, Wilf Fitchett, 17, and Jevon Hirst, 16, died in November last year on a camping trip to Eryri national park (Snowdonia) when their car came off a rural road on a bend and ended up upside-down in a water-filled ditch.

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