Chloe Lloyd was driving home with her eight-year-old daughter, Lexi, when she was killed in a car crash in Dorset earlier this year, an inquest heard
A boyfriend was left listening down the phone to his partner’s screams as she was killed in a car crash, with her daughter left seriously injured, an inquest heard.
Chloe Lloyd was driving home from her mother’s with her eight-year-old daughter Lexi when her Vauxhall Astra left the road and crashed into a tree.null
She was speaking on a hands-free mobile to her boyfriend Domenico Gugliemucci when he heard a scream before the line went quiet.
A worried Mr Gugliemucci rang Miss Lloyd’s mother Emma, who then drove in search of the 28-year-old and found her daughter’s body and seriously injured grandchild.
Reading out Mr Gugliemucci’s statement at the Bournemouth inquest, coroner Rachael Griffin said: “Chloe said words to the effect of ‘how are you, and you sound tired?’ He replied he was fine and asked her if she was driving back from her mum’s?
“At which point he heard a scream from Chloe and then other distorted sounds.
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Miss Lloyd was pronounced dead at the scene on the A35 at Upton, Poole, Dorset, on January 3.
Her daughter continues to recover from her injuries under the care of her grandparents after receiving emergency treatment in hospital.
On the day of the tragic crash, the inquest heard Miss Lloyd had spent time with her mother and daughter before a meal with her father, Martyn.
She was last seen alive at around 8.30pm when she set off to drive home.
Around 15 minutes later her parents received the devastating call from Mr Gugliemucci.
A statement from Miss Lloyd’s mother was also read out at the inquest.
In the statement Mrs Lloyd said: “After the meal Chloe and her father were messing about and joking with one another, as they usually did.
“She was happy and content and making plans for the future.”
A post mortem examination show Miss Lloyd, who held a driving licence for 11 years and had no endorsements, died from multiple injures.
Further tests showed she had no alcohol or drugs in her system, and did not have any underlying health conditions.
A police investigation found the car had no mechanical defects and that all four tyres were in a serviceable condition.
Miss Lloyd’s mobile phone was in her handbag inside the car, connected to her hands-free system via bluetooth, police found.
No other vehicles were involved in the collision and witness statements said that Miss Lloyd’s car just lost control, spun around and then careered off the carriageway and collided with the tree.
Road conditions were good and police found no evidence of any object in the carriageway or even any animal in or by the side of the road.
Ms Griffin said: “I’m satisfied from all the evidence before me that the cause of her death is as the result of injuries that Miss Lloyd sustained in a road traffic collision.
“Following a thorough investigation by Dorset Police they did not find any reason why Miss Floyd’s vehicle left the carriageway that day.
“She was not driving at excessive speed.
“There is no physical evidence to account for why her vehicle left the carriageway that day.
“I know that Chloe was on the phone, but it is clear she was acting within the law and using a hands-free device to make that call.
“That phone call was very short, her phone was found within her bag – so there was no evidence to suggest she had handled that telephone to make a call.
“On that phone call she did not appear distracted, there’s no evidence from her partner on that phone call that her daughter in the car made any noise or any sound that distracted her. I do not believe she was distracted by her daughter at all.
“There was no indication to me, because she was on the phone at the time of her death, that she fell asleep, which caused her vehicle to leave the road.
“Sadly the only person who may be able to assist me as to why that vehicle left that road that day would be Miss Lloyd herself – and tragically, she is not here to tell me that.”
