Boy, 10, killed in school coach crash 'still strapped into his seat'

A 10-year-old schoolboy killed when his school coach crashed died from a head injury, a coroner has revealed.

Oliver Price was found strapped in his seat inside the overturned 70-seater bus transporting pupils and teachers from Minehead Middle School in Somerset last Thursday.

At the opening of an inquest into Oliver's death in Wells, Somerset, this morning, a statement was read by Vanessa McKinlay, assistant coroner for Somerset.

The words on behalf of Coroner's Investigator Ben Batley told how Oliver had been pronounced dead at the scene at 5pm by paramedics and was identified to police by his father Matthew.

The crash happened between Wheddon Cross and Timberscombe at about 3.15pm on July 17.