Mother given exemption not to wear seatbelt died after going through windscreen in crash

A mother given a doctor's exemption not to wear a seatbelt died after being sent through the windscreen in a motorway crash, an inquest has heard.

Sarah Evans, 58, was given the exemption - given to people in case they are stopped by the police - because of a hernia.

But an inquest heard she was killed when her daughter crashed into the central reservation of the M4 on a day out.

Her daughter Rachel Evans, 26, screamed: "I've killed my mother" after the Ford Ka she was driving hit the barrier

Sarah Evans was flung out of the front passenger window - and died at the scene near Llangyfelach, Swansea in January last year.

Witness David Coates said he told his wife: "Oh my God, was that a body? I am sure that was a body coming out of the window."

At the time of the crash Mrs Evans' family described her as a mother who "lived and loved life to the full".

The Swansea inquest heard there was no drink or drugs in her daughter's system - and she was said to be driving in line with the speed limit.

Phone records showed Rachel had received an iMessage at 7.10pm from a friend on her mobile phone but it is not known if she had read it.

Rachel said she could not remember the moments leading up to the fatal crash. The Crown Prosecution Service decided to take no further action.

Acting senior coroner Colin Phillips said the post mortem examination revealed Sarah Evans had died as a result of "catastrophic blunt force head injury".

The inquest was not told if a seatbelt may have saved her life. Mr Phillips recorded that Mrs Evans, of Llanelli, died as a result of a road traffic collision.