A husband who died alongside his wife in a head-on collision with a police van may have momentarily fallen asleep before the crash, an inquest has heard. John Jackson, 60, had driven from Bwlchgwyn, North Wales, to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire with his daughter Ffion to pick up his wife Nerys, 57, who had been working abroad, and the family were returning home when the crash happened on December 9 last year.
Ms Davis, who attended the inquest at Shropshire Coroners Court in a wheelchair, and the couple’s daughter were seriously injured in the collision, while Mr and Mrs Jackson died at the scene. Reading a statement by Ffion Jackson, senior coroner John Ellery said Mr Jackson had been “pottering” about the family home tidying up all day ahead of Mrs Jackson’s arrival back home from the Ascension Islands.
She added that her father had said he was “fine to carry on” when they had earlier stopped at Hopwood Park Services on the M42 to get a coffee and stretch his legs, and that he “wouldn’t have carried on if he didn’t feel safe to do so”.
Detective Sergeant Julie Lyman, of West Midlands Police, who investigated the collision as the vehicle involved a West Mercia Police van, said she believed Mr Jackson may have been distracted or had had a “micro-sleep” after a long drive and that the collision was “inevitable”.
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