Girl who died on M5 was under arrest, inquest hears

The parent of a teenage miss who died aft fleeing a constabulary conveyance connected the M5 has paid tribute to her "beautiful daughter".

Tamzin Hall, 17, from Wellington, Somerset, sustained fatal injuries erstwhile she was struck by a car betwixt junction 25 astatine Taunton and 24 astatine Bridgwater soon aft 23:00 GMT connected 11 November.

The opening of an inquest into her decease heard Tamzin had been nether apprehension and was travelling successful an Avon and Somerset Police car that had stopped connected the motorway.

In a connection released aft the hearing, Tamzin’s parent Amy Hall described her eldest girl arsenic her "best friend" and said the decease had near their household "devastated".

Ms Hall said Tamzin was "taken acold excessively young".

"Tamzin was the astir kindest, caring, loving, loyal miss ever," she said.

"She was the astir honorable idiosyncratic I’ve ever known; she was precise peculiar to me.

"She was my shadiness from the infinitesimal she opened her eyes successful the greeting until she went to slumber astatine night.

"She was specified an intelligent young miss and had specified absorbing perceptions connected things successful life."

She added: "Tamzin was my implicit everything and I can’t judge she isn’t present anymore. She was my world."

The inquest opening astatine Wells Town Hall heard Tamzin, who was a student, got retired of the car and crossed the roadworthy earlier climbing the clang barrier.

She was deed by a conveyance driven by a subordinate of the nationalist travelling connected the southbound carriageway and sustained fatal head, cervix and thorax injuries.

Coroner’s serviceman Ben Batley told the hearing: "Tamzin was a rider nether apprehension successful a constabulary conveyance travelling connected the northbound carriageway connected the M5 erstwhile it stopped for reasons yet to beryllium established."

Mr Batley described however Tamzin past got retired of the car earlier going crossed the northbound lane, climbing the obstruction and making her mode connected to the southbound lane wherever she was struck.

Tamzin was pronounced dormant astatine 23:10 GMT and identified by fingerprint comparison.

"Her injuries were not survivable and Tamzin was declared deceased wherever she was recovered connected the motorway," Mr Batley said.

"Police and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) inquiries are ongoing arsenic to the circumstances of the collision and however Tamzin came to beryllium wherever she was found."

Mr Batley said a post-mortem introspection gave a provisional origin of decease arsenic head, cervix and thorax injuries pending further investigations.

Samantha Marsh, elder coroner for Somerset, said: "On the ground of the accusation provided to me, I judge I should unfastened an inquest into the decease of Tamzin Ellen Hall."

She adjourned the lawsuit until a pre-inquest reappraisal proceeding connected 5 November adjacent year, which Mrs Marsh said was the earliest disposable day owed to the complexity of the case.

Tamzin’s family, Avon and Somerset Police, the IOPC and the operator of the conveyance which collided with Tamzin were recognised arsenic funny radical successful the inquest.

The circumstances of Tamzin’s apprehension and her transportation, arsenic good arsenic however she near the constabulary car and what happened afterwards volition besides beryllium examined.