Police given misconduct notices over M5 death

Two constabulary officers person been served with misconduct notices aft a 17-year-old miss died aft fleeing a constabulary vehicle, the watchdog has announced.

Tamzin Hall, 17, from Wellington, Somerset, sustained fatal injuries erstwhile she was struck by a car connected the M5, betwixt Taunton and Bridgwater soon aft 23:00 GMT connected 11 November.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct said Ms Hall was taken into custody erstwhile officers pulled implicit for "safety reasons."

"Our probe is successful the aboriginal stages and we are moving hard to found the nonstop circumstances of what took place, from the clip of Tamzin's arrest, to however events unfolded a abbreviated clip aboriginal connected the M5," said Regional Director David Ford.

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