A father and son drowned after a Mercedes they were test driving hit a telegraph pole and plunged into a canal, an inquest has been told.
Footballer Cameron Walsh, 16, was messaging his friends minutes before the car entered the Louth Canal, in Tetney near Grimsby, Greater Lincolnshire Coroner’s Court heard.
His father, David Walsh, 40, was believed to have been driving the vehicle.
A witness who saw the blue Mercedes GLC 300 said it performed a “snaking action” and assumed the driver was “trying to gain control”, the inquest heard. (Skynews)
