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THE parents of a 16-year-old schoolboy who died of massive head injuries after los­ ing control of the Land-Rover he was driv­ ing; have rejected the version of events given by the last person to see him alive. Derek and Elizabeth Makinson pleaded with


Sarah Calvert to tell them exactly what hap­ pened and help them with their grief over the tragic death of their son, Luke. “Our door is always open for you to come and tell us the whole truth about that night,” Mrs


Makinson said at the inquest into her son's death. “It would cleanse your own conscience and it


is the least you can do to help us on our journey of grief.”


The inquest heard that Luke, a pupil at St Augustme's RC School, Billington, had been out


with Mi^ Calvert and other friends in Clitheroe on March 4th. His body was found across the front seat of a Land-Rover, belonging to Miss Calvert’s par­


ents, in the early hours of the following morn- ing. ■ A police accident investigator said the vehicle was being driven from Downham towards Chat-


bum when Luke lost control and collided with a stone wall on the offside. There was a second collision with another wall


on the nearside before the Land-Rover mount­ ed the pavement on the bridge over the A59, coming to a halt on the Chatburn side. The driver's window of the vehicle was open


and accident investigator Brendan Kellett said Luke's head had hit a coping stone as he was


thrown sideways. He said the fact Luke was not wearing a seat belt was less significant than the open window given the mechanism of his injuries. The inquest heard that Luke was a regular


visitor to Sarah’s parents’ home in Paythorne, where he would drive the Land-Rover on private land. On the night of his death Sarah said they had met up, along with other friends, in Clitheroe and eventually ended up at the home of Kayleigh Jackson, in Taylor Street.


LUKE in happier


times- his parents still seek help in coming to


terms with their grief


(s) Kayleigh told police that Sarah and Luke had


disappeared without saying anything. Later Sarah returned in tears sa3dng she had lost her Land-Rover.


' At 7-30 a.m. the police came to her home with


Sarah’s boyfriend, David, and said the Land- Rover had crashed and Luke had been killed. Sarah told the inquest she had driven away


from Rayleigh's house with Luke and after trav­ elling along the A59 had turned left towards Chatbiirh. She stopped at a lay-by just before Age of


Iron because she needed to “answer a call of nature”. While she was doing that, Luke drove off and that was the last time she saw him. She Said she expected Luke to come back and


get her, but when he did not return, she walked back to Rayleigh's house. Sarah was asked by Mr Makinson if she had


previously admitted to him and his wife that on the night she had drunk five or six pints of lager. She replied ‘‘no”. She also denied throwing the keys at Luke as


. she got out of the Land-Rover. - Asked why she had not contacted anyone


about the missing vehicle and Luke, despite see­ ing the emergency vehicles as she walked back to Clitheroe, she said she did not think they were anything to do with Luke. A post-mortern examination revealed that


Luke had nearly double the legal drink-drive limit of alcohol in his blood and urine samples showed the level would have been higher. The medical cause of death was given as head


injuries. Recording a verdict of accidental death, coro-


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ner Michael Singleton said he could only begin to imagine the grief and distress that Luke's family and friends were going through. “One can only speculate as to why things


turned out the way they did and I know there is nothing I can say that will take away any of the pain,” he added.


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