Coroners inquest, what to expect?

[V8forweekends]

mph1977 said:

Getting to the truth or to the answer you want ? i could be extremely crass and make some comparisions with the actions of certain families in more high profile cases of a single death in controversial circumstances but i won't.

unfortunately , and this is something which the denziens of PH are not very good at acknowledging exists , never mind the impact it has , people carry their own biases into any encounter ...

I thought I'd been quite measured, and to be fair, things may have got better, this was a while ago.

We weren't looking for an apportionment of blame as we understood that wasn't the purpose of the inquest. The Coroner had decided that FIL was using his phone and therefore caused his own demise. This is entirely possible; it's also possible that didn't happen. Phone record evidence was provided but it was inconclusive and he had a full hands free kit.

Either way the cause of death was the same, and the verdict of accidental death almost inevitable - both of these were a given and not in dispute.

Therefore the coroner's leading questions about the exact circumstances in which he all but said to the other driver "you didn't do anything wrong did you Mr X?" were a bit hard to take.

[Mr.Chips]

Hi Guys,
The inquest went reasonably well. The coroner was brilliant and explained the process really well. Due to the number of witnesses, it took a little longer than we expected but was very comprehensive. In the end we got a narrative verdict, which leaves us free to move to the next step, which we will discuss in the near future.
Thanks for all the help.