Inquest into the Deaths of Amy-Lee ARMSTRONG and Kyrone Terrance EADES and Ashley Scott DE AGRELA
Deceased
Amy-Lee ARMSTRONG and Kyrone Terrance EADES and Ashley Scott DE AGRELA
Demographics
unknown
Date of death
2015-12-02
Cause of death
Multiple injuries (Armstrong and Eades); complications of head injury (De Agrela)
AI-generated summary
Three young people died in a high-speed motor vehicle crash on 2-4 December 2015 in Western Australia. The driver, Matthew Conduit, was under the influence of alcohol and methylamphetamine, and was speeding at over twice the posted limit when he lost control and crashed into a tree. Two passengers (Armstrong and Eades) died at the scene; a third (De Agrela) died two days later from head injuries. Police officers had initiated a brief pursuit which was appropriately aborted within 25 seconds when the driver turned off headlights and drove on the wrong side of the road. The coroner found the crash was caused by the driver's excessive speed and reckless driving, not the police pursuit. However, the coroner recommended the WA Police Emergency Driving Policy be more prescriptive and restrictive, and suggested implementation of post-incident decision-making analyses and regular practical refresher training for emergency driving qualifications.
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Contributing factors
- Excessive speed (over 135 km/h in 60 km/h zone)
- Reckless driving
- Driver impairment from alcohol and methylamphetamine
- Excessive steering input for speed
- Brief police pursuit engagement
- Driver awareness of police pursuit
Coroner's recommendations
- WA Police Emergency Driving Review Committee to seriously consider recommendations from the families to adopt a more restrictive approach to pursuits, including prohibiting pursuits for traffic and driving offences, including more guidance on alternative resolution strategies, and requiring officers who terminate a pursuit to pull over their vehicles to make clear they are no longer in pursuit
- WA Police to implement post-incident analyses of each evade police intercept incident to evaluate the reasons for decisions to commence, continue, and abort pursuits, similar to root-cause analyses used in hospital incident reviews
- WA Police to consider implementing regular practical refresher training of emergency driving qualifications with a decision-making component
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