I hope for the sake of this lads family that suspension mods to #VWPolo had been notified to insurers (its been lowered, I compared it to my own first #car which is a similar model) , and there isn't too much data on the ECU or its difficult to capture as car has sat at bottom of River Nene for a few days (although memory chips can survive this!) as #insurers are *really* going to be digging deep into reducing their liabilities for this #crash, with a dead passenger and other injuries/trauma to the survivors.

Daily Mail managed to doorstep witnesses/survivors and gleaned from them he was not habitually a bad/reckless driver and likely overcorrected steering trying to avoid #potholes - I 100% believe this, knowing what rural roads are like round here!

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2026-03-31/body-of-missing-teenager-found-two-weeks-after-river-crash

Got genuine sympathy for this lad and his friends, even if it turns out he may have been going faster than prudent for road conditions (which include #potholes) - seems they were all genuinely unlucky and had the road been in better condition this #RTC may not have even happened - I can guess at how he was thinking, he didn't want to fuck up his alloys or suspension having just got the car, and overcooked it trying to avoid something bad on road surface...

#RoadSafety #EastAnglia

https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/25955058.brother-missing-wisbech-teen-declan-berry-pays-tribute/