A teen footballer suffered an "unsurvivable" head injury after flipping his car during a high-speed police chase, an inquest has heard. Devonte Scott, 18, was killed when the Ford Fiesta he was driving smashed into two cars on the afternoon of May 16, 2021.
On the first day of an inquest into Devonte's death yesterday, a jury heard he was not wearing a seatbelt and was driving without a licence at the time of the crash. Sergeant Matthew Sale, a road policing officer, said he and colleague PC Matthew Stemp were on patrol in an unmarked police car when they spotted the Fiesta close behind.
He told the court that he believed Devonte was trying to overtake him and that he appeared to be looking at his lap, suggesting he may have been using his mobile phone while driving. Sgt Sale told jurors he decided to pull over to the side of the road to allow the Fiesta to pass in Stretford.
