Guernsey crash car ‘was travelling at speed’

Stuart Moorat (27) and 25-year-old girlfriend Georgina Le Prevost died when their car left a road in the parish of St Saviour’s and landed on the foreshore below on the night of 21 July.

The couple, who had been together for two years, had been to a friend’s wedding reception at the Cobo Bay Hotel on the night of the accident.

Shortly after they left, a woman who was sitting on the balcony of her property saw Mr Moorat’s BMW go past at speed. There were no other cars on the road.

Seconds after it passed her house, she heard a loud bang and saw the headlights going up into the air and twisting around, then turning over and disappearing.

It gave the impression that the car had gone on to the beach, one of the inquests heard.

At the same time a group of people who had been fishing were returning to their vehicles on a slipway.

They saw the vehicle pass at high speed before they heard a screech of tyres and a couple of impacts, an inquest heard. The emergency services were called.

When police officers, residents who heard the collision and the people who had been fishing climbed down onto the rocks, it was apparent that the couple were dead.

States pathologist Dr Catherine Chinyama found that Mr Moorat had died from a head injury. Ms Le Prevost had suffered positional asphyxia due to the ligature effect of the seat belt.

Judge Graeme McKerrell released the bodies and the inquests were adjourned pending the outcome of a police investigation.

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