M5 crash victims named as inquest opens
Two adults and a teenage boy who died in a crash on the M5 have been named.Andrew Moore, 46, Swala Harling, 47, and Sebastian Moore, 14, were killed when their BMW left the northbound carriageway at about 21:00 BST on May 30, between junction 14 at Falfield and junction 13 at Michaelwood services.Another child was taken to hospital after being seriously injured in the incident.The inquest on Wednesday, which was opened at Flax Bourton, near Bristol, heard all three lived in Clay Cross near Chesterfield in Derbyshire.
At the time, police closed the route for most of the next day while they examined a "very complex scene".The coroner's court heard that Mr Moore, who was a mechanic, was driving the car at the time of the crash, with Ms Harling, who worked in IT, in the front passenger seat. Sebastian was sitting in the back of the car.A full inquest will take place at a date yet to be fixed, once a collision investigation report and medical reports are completed.
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