Teenagers killed in Wales crash drowned, inquest hears
Four teenagers who failed to return home after an overnight camping trip to Snowdonia died of drowning, an inquest has been told.
The bodies of Jevon Hirst, 16, Harvey Owen, 17, Hugo Morris, 18, and Wilf Fitchett, 17, were found in an overturned, partially submerged car at Garreg, near Tremadog, last Tuesday.
The sixth-form students, all from Shrewsbury, are believed to have died after their silver Ford Fiesta veered off a country lane in "atrocious" weather and plunged into water.
Post-mortem examinations carried out on the four teenagers showed the provisional causes of death were drowning.
At an opening of an inquest into their deaths, Kate Robertson, the senior coroner for northwest Wales, said the inquest proceedings were restricted while police continued to investigate the[1]