Actor killed in smash as driver hit 110mph
A BBC actor was killed in a crash after a speeding driver ‘lost control’ and crashed into a tree, an inquest heard.
Reiss Jarvis suffered multiple ‘unsurvivable’ injuries as a result of the smash in Delph, Oldham.
The 21-year-old was a front-seat passenger in a Mazda 3 when it careered off the country road and hit a tree before plunging down an embankment.
Reiss was pronounced dead at the scene while the driver, Karl Young, was taken to hospital where he later died.
Mr Young, 34, lost control of the vehicle while travelling at ‘excessive speed’ along a remote and unlit stretch of road at about 8.40pm, an inquest at Rochdale Coroner’s Court heard.
The pair were returning to Oldham after visiting a fish shop in Marsden, West Yorkshire, on November 10 of last year.
After leaving Huddersfield Road, Mr Young’s Mazda smashed into a tree before continuing down the embankment into a field, leaving the two men trapped inside.
A passer-by dialled 999 and emergency services attended the scene. Mr Young was pulled from the vehicle and taken to hospital, but Reiss died at the scene in Saddleworth.
Police Sergeant Neil Pennington, of GMP’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit, told the hearing that analysis of the vehicle’s airbag module showed the Mazda had been travelling at 110mph just seconds before the crash - more than double the 50mph speed limit. At the time the car hit the tree, it was travelling at 58mph, he added.
PS Pennington told the hearing that officers had examined the vehicle and had not found any ‘significant defects’ that could have contributed to the crash. He said there was no evidence to suggest any other vehicles were involved in the incident. Toxicology results showed that Mr Young had not been impaired by alcohol or drugs at the time of the crash.
Assistant coroner Michael Salt concluded that Reiss died as a result of a ‘road traffic collision.’