Family Hopes Shock Crash Film Will Save Lives

A man has told Sky News that he hopes releasing video of the last moments before his brother died with a friend in a drug-fuelled car crash will prevent similar deaths.

Driver Kyle Careford, 20, died along with friend Michael Owen, 21, when the Renault Clio they were in smashed into a church wall in Crowborough, East Sussex.

Just as the footage fades, Mr Owen says: "We're doing 90, boy, slow down."

The film, shown at their inquest in Hastings, then cuts to the sound of a passer-by asking "Is anyone alive in there?" - but both Kyle and Michael were already dead.

Kyle's older brother, Zac Hemming, told Sky News: "The video gave us the answers we needed in terms of where they were going, why they were driving. It gave us so many answers which is a blessing, but of course it's horrible to see it being broadcast everywhere.

"The message is hopefully one that will get through to somebody, at least one person, and it'll change their lives, change the way they drive and save their life.

"The reason we're doing this is so it doesn't happen to anyone else.

"If one person sits their son or daughter down and explains this is what happens when you drive like an idiot then it's done good."

The footage has been viewed more than 3.5 million times on YouTube.

Mr Hemming said he had already heard from people who had "sat their families down and it's really hit a nerve".

The inquest heard how the two friends, both from Tunbridge Wells but staying in Crowborough at the time, had taken a cocktail of prescribed and illegal drugs before the crash on Sunday 12 April.

Kyle did not have a licence and was uninsured to drive the car, which was owned by Mr Owen.

Asked how it felt when he learned about his brother's death, Mr Hemming added: "It was terrible. My whole world fell apart. It's the worst phone call you could possibly ever imagine receiving."