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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jamie Grierson

‘She never got help’: mother says daughter who died on motorway was failed by care system

Tamzin Hall in a red cardigan looking at the camera
Tamzin Hall had been diagnosed with autism and was living in a children’s home in Somerset at the time of her death. Photograph: Family handout

The mother of a girl who was struck by a vehicle and killed after she left a police car on a motorway says the untimely death of her daughter came after years of frustration and disappointment with authorities over the teenager’s care.

Tamzin Hall, 17, had been arrested and was being taken into custody when she left the police vehicle in which she was travelling on the M5 northbound between Taunton and Bridgwater in Somerset on 11 November 2024.

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