just a bright happy funny spark you know she was she was blossoming into a beautiful young lady he'd grown into such a beautiful funny loving kind young man um you know he he he had such a kind heart tilly Seekum and Harry Pel were just 16 and 17 when they were killed passengers in a car traveling too fast driven by a teenager who just passed his test it's devastating you know the birthdays the anniversaries um everything you know and and just being a mother um you know you feel lost when you've lost one of your
children there's a lot of things that we do as a family now that are incredibly hard because Harry has left a massive hole in our family tilly Harry and 16-year-old Frank Wormald all died when the car they were in driven by 17-year-old Edward Spencer lost control on a country road in Warikshire edward Spencer had passed his driving test just 5 weeks before he made a journey on this stretch of road he was traveling at around 64 mph when he lost control too fast say police for the conditions he crashed his Fiesta into an oncoming Fiat
500 seriously injuring two primary school children and their stepmom inside she told Sky News of the moment it happened i was on a straight strip of road and I saw a silver Ford Fiesta coming towards me around the corner and I could tell that the driver had lost control and I knew it was going to hit my car and the only thing I could do was tell my children to close their eyes because I knew they were going to die all three did survive but their recovery continues as Spencer is sentenced yet again there are
broken families all asking the government to reconsider introducing tougher rules for new drivers graduated driving licenses successful in countries like Canada and Australia see restrictions like a ban on driving at night and a limit on passenger numbers if graduated driving licenses were in place you know this would have saved Till's life what I'm saying is if if you're not willing to to to go down the graduated driving licenses route no action and procrastination is not good enough anymore we're penalized because our son's been killed you know you can look at the it's a double-edged sword
isn't it you know our son is no longer here because somebody was danger um driving without due care and attention sentencing Spencer the judge described the carnage he had caused telling him he was a habitual bad driver showing off and going too fast in an unusual intervention he said this horrific situation might have been avoided if young drivers had limits on passenger numbers yet more pressure on the government that refuses to consider graduated driving licenses but says it is determined to tackle the problem of young deaths on our roads too late for three families who've
lost their children dan Whitehead Sky News
