JUSTICEFORHARRY19
A coroner has criticised the US government for a lack of training provided to employee Anne Sacoolas prior to the crash outside an American airbase which killed motorcyclist Harry Dunn.
Anne Pember concluded that Mr Dunn, 19, died as a result of “injuries sustained during a head-on collision” with a car on the wrong side of the road outside RAF Croughton in August 2019.
Speaking after the four-day hearing, Mr Dunn’s family accused the US government of “obstructing” their son’s inquest.
Both representatives of the US embassy and Sacoolas did not attend, prompting family spokesman Radd Seiger to say the US government’s position was that the “lives of UK citizens like Harry ultimately do not matter”.
The coroner has issued three Prevention of Future Death notices relating to the lack of training given to Ms Sacoolas for driving in the UK.
Outside the Sessions House in Northampton, Mr Dunn’s mother Charlotte Charles said the inquest “concludes everything that we have been fighting to achieve”.
She added: “We have come to the end of our huge fight.
“Does it bring closure to our loss? I don’t think that ever happens.”
She said Sacoolas’ failure to attend the inquest – or previous court hearings – would “forever leave us feeling bitterly disappointed in her”.
In a statement read to the hearing earlier, Sacoolas apologised for her “tragic mistake” which she said she would “live with every single day for the rest of my life”.
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