Police 'organisational failure' left couple in crashed car by motorway for three days

A woman who, along with her partner, lay undiscovered in a crashed car for days probably would have survived, but for 'organisational failure' in police call handling procedures, an inquiry has found. Lamara Bell, 25, and John Yuill, 28, died after their car careered off the M9 near Stirling on 5 July 2015 as they drove back from a camping trip. They lay in their Renault Clio for three days before being discovered on 8 July, despite police being alerted to the incident.

Police sergeant Brian Henry, now retired, volunteered to do overtime at Bilston Glen, arriving into what the sheriff described as a 'confused, fractious working environment'. The inquiry heard that on 5 July he took a call from a farmer named John Wilson reporting a car off the road and recorded it in his police notebook, but he failed to log it into the Storm case management system and no action was taken.

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