In the 11 months since her only son, Harvey, 17, died in a car crash, Crystal Owen has found herself obsessively returning to one question: what more could she have done to stop him accepting a lift from another teenager? The driver, Hugo Morris, 18, had held his driving licence for only six months and 16 days when he drove three school friends, Harvey and Jevon Hirst, 16, and Wilfred Fitchett, 17, to Snowdonia. The silver Ford Fiesta plunged into a drainage ditch and overturned. The four boys, who were all wearing seatbelts, survived the impact, but were trapped and drowned when the car let in water. Harvey Owen was 17Owen, 39, said her conclusion is that new laws must be enacted to restrict newly qualified drivers, under

Source: The Times October 20, 2024 00:33 UTC