A woman who was killed in a car crash suffered a fatal neck injury and died at the scene, an inquest at Dunstable Coroner’s Court heard yesterday.
Sonya Gurney, 31, of Leyburne Road, was a passenger in the Renault Clio her sister Laura Gurney was driving when it collided with an Audi A4 in Newlands Road, Luton, on January 21 this year.
The court heard how the Clio was seen “snaking” across the road before it hit the Audi which was being driven by Karen Denson who did not have a licence or insurance.
Miss Denson said: “As I was driving down the road the car was on my side of the road and then it was going left to right, left to right. I didn’t know what to do, there was nowhere for me to pull over or anything.”
The Clio, which was travelling at 36mph, went over the top of the Audi’s windscreen, then through the golf course wall at the side of the road and into a tree.
Miss Denson and Laura were seriously injured, but Sonya suffered a severed vertical column in her neck and was pronounced dead at the scene at 2.40pm.
A forensic investigation showed the Audi was driving at a speed of about 32mph, and there was no physical evidence for why the Clio had gone across the road, although there had been hard steering to the right for an unknown reason.
HM Assistant Deputy Coroner Thomas Osborne recorded that Sonya died as a result of an accident.