Five questions that need to be answered after girl, 17, died on M5

The mum of a 17-year-old miss who died aft jumping retired of a constabulary car and being tally implicit connected a motorway has paid tribute to her ‘very peculiar daughter’, saying she was ‘the astir kindest, caring, loving, loyal miss ever’.

Tamzin Hall died astatine the country aft suffering catastrophic injuries successful the collision connected the M5 betwixt junction 25 astatine Taunton and 24 astatine Bridgwater soon aft 11pm connected November 11.

An inquest opening astatine Wells Town Hall heard she had been nether apprehension astatine the clip and was travelling successful an Avon and Somerset Police car which had stopped connected the motorway.

Avon and Somerset Police and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) are some investigating the circumstances of the crash.

Here, Metro examines 5 cardinal questions that need to beryllium answered.

Why was Tamzin arrested?

It emerged during the opening of Tamzin’s inquest this week that she was nether apprehension astatine the clip she managed to get retired of the constabulary vehicle.

The constabulary person yet to corroborate what she was being detained for.

The circumstances of her apprehension and the crushed for it look to beryllium matters that volition beryllium near for the substantive inquest hearing.

That is not apt to instrumentality spot earlier 2026.

Samantha Marsh, elder coroner for Somerset, has adjourned the lawsuit until a pre-inquest reappraisal proceeding connected November 5 adjacent year, which is the earliest disposable day owed to its complexity.

Why did the constabulary car stop?

We cognize erstwhile and wherever the constabulary car stopped – connected the northbound carriageway betwixt junctions 25 astatine Taunton and 24 astatine Bridgwater soon aft 11pm – but we inactive don’t cognize why.

There could beryllium a precise elemental reason, similar postulation oregon lanes being closed owed to roadworks.

Or the teen whitethorn person been trying to unit her mode retired of the vehicle, leaving the arresting officers with nary enactment but to propulsion implicit again to woody with the situation.

Coroner’s serviceman Ben Batley told the hearing: ‘Tamzin was a rider nether apprehension successful a constabulary conveyance travelling connected the northbound carriageway connected the M5 erstwhile it stopped for reasons yet to beryllium established.’

How was she capable to get out?

This question follows instantly from the erstwhile one.

It seems inconceivable that Tamzin would person been capable to simply assistance the doorway grip and unfastened from the inside.

That brings america backmost to the question of whether an serviceman opened it to woody with something, giving Tamzin the accidental to escape.

Mrs Marsh said inheritance accusation considered arsenic portion of the enquiry would see ‘Tamzin’s presentation, with respect to immoderate imaginable intelligence wellness history’.

The circumstances of Tamzin’s arrest and her transportation, arsenic good arsenic however she near the constabulary car and what happened afterwards volition besides beryllium examined astatine the afloat inquest.

How was she capable to transverse the road?

Getting retired of the constabulary car is 1 thing.

But however was Tamzin capable to past transverse the northbound carriageway, clamber implicit the clang obstruction and participate the southbound carriageway wherever she was tally implicit – each nether constabulary supervision?

The constabulary person not confirmed whether the teen was being restrained with handcuffs astatine the time.

Why was she being transported from Taunton to Bridgwater?

Tamzin was being driven to a custody suite successful Bridgwater by 2 officers successful an Avon and Somerset Police car from an code successful Taunton.

It seems to simply beryllium a lawsuit that Bridgwater is person to Taunton than either of the force’s different 2 custody centres, which are successful Keynsham and Patchway successful Bristol.

‘Tamzin was my implicit everything’

After today’s hearing, Tamzin’s mother Amy Hall described her eldest girl arsenic her ‘best friend’ and said the decease had near their household ‘devastated’.

‘Tamzin was the astir kindest, caring, loving, loyal miss ever. She was the astir honorable idiosyncratic I’ve ever known; she was precise peculiar to me,’ she said.

‘She had a large consciousness of humour, and we had galore laughs together.

‘She was my shadiness from the infinitesimal she opened her eyes successful the greeting until she went to slumber astatine night. She was specified an intelligent young miss and had specified absorbing perceptions connected things successful life.’

She added: ‘Tamzin was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, truthful she was unsocial and saw the satellite successful specified a antithetic way.

‘Tamzin was my implicit everything and I can’t judge she isn’t present immoderate more. She was my world.’

Ms Hall said her girl was ‘always truthful thoughtful’ and enjoyed the elemental things successful life, arsenic good arsenic talking, her household and chocolate.

‘Tamzin was specified a fantastic daughter. She was a beauteous person,’ she said.

‘My beingness volition ne'er beryllium the aforesaid but I’m utilizing my spot for my different children, Tamzin’s siblings.

‘She was lone 17 but she has taught maine a batch and I tin usage that representation and clasp connected to that.

‘I volition ne'er ever get implicit it, she was taken acold excessively young.’

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