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Bestival coach crash: Families demand change in law after 20-year-old tyre blow out killed three

An inquest ruled driver Colin Daulby and festival goers Michael Molloy and Kerry Ogden were accidentally killed when their vehicle careered off the A3 near Guildford, Surrey

Emergency services at the scene of a coach crash on the A3 near Hindhead in Surrey(PA)

The families of three people killed when a coach crashed because it was fitted with a 20-year-old, secondhand tyre today demanded a change in the law to protect road users.

Their call came after an inquest ruled that two young festival-goers and a coach driver were accidentally killed when their vehicle careered off the A3 near Guildford, Surrey.

Driver Colin Daulby, 63, of Warrington, Cheshire, Kerry Ogden, 23, of Maghull, Liverpool, and musician Michael Molloy, 18, from Woolton, Liverpool, died in the crash on Sept 10 last year.

A two day hearing was told how the 52-seat coach operated by Merseypride Travel was returning to Liverpool from the Bestival event on the Isle of Wight.

It heard the nearside, front tyre blew - which was lawful - blew apart causing the driver to lose control, crash off the road and into a tree.

"Immoral": Mum Frances Molloy, pictured with son Michael, blasted the coach company(PA)
 

After the inquest, Frances Molloy, mother of Michael, described the actions of coach company MerseyPride Travel as 'immoral' and she called for far stricter laws governing the roadworthiness of motorists' tyres.

The 49-year-old said: "The findings of the inquest into Michael, Kerry and Colin's death was due to a secondhand tyre that was nearly 20 years old which blew and caused the fatal crash that occurred.

Killed: Coach driver Colin Daulby(Mercury)

Horror: The scene of the fatal crash in Surrey(LNP)