Charity worker dies in crash after car smashed into tree

Tuesday 21st January 2020 18:49 EST
 

A 'selfless' and 'kind' charity worker died when his car went off the road and smashed into a tree in south Manchester while he was driving home from an event.

Owess Munir, pictured, who had three passengers in his Lexus car, was speeding at the time of the crash, on Princess Parkway.

The 23-year-old's car left the carriageway then began to 'rotate', colliding with a street lamp and then the 'base of a tree', an inquest heard.

The smash happened at around 12.30am on September 3, 2018.

Owess, who lived in Cardiff, had been touring the UK helping with the production of charity plays.

He was on his way home to Wales when the collision occurred.

The sound engineering graduate worked for Islamic Relief, a charity he had volunteered for since he was a teenager.

Manchester Coroner's Court heard from PC Paul Terry, a forensic collision reconstruction officer, who was called to the scene of the collision at 1.30am.

He was unable to say exactly how fast Owess was driving, but could conclude that it was above the 50mph speed limit.

The passengers in the car suspected it was 'in the region of 60 or 70mph'. Another driver who witnessed the crash 'estimated it to be around 70mph'.

"It must have been in excess of 55mph, in order to collide with a lamp post and strike a tree with enough force to cause the damage that we have seen" he told the inquest.

There were no CCTV cameras covering the stretch of road where he crashed, near the junction with Northenden.


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