Driver in horror crash near Dudley that killed three men was more than double the drink-drive limit, coroner hears
A driver was more than double the legal alcohol limit when he and two other men died in a crash on a busy road in Upper Gornal.
Inquests into the deaths of Haydon Liam Taylor, Finn Cooney and Haydn Lee Robson this week heard that Mr Robson had been at the wheel of a Seat Leon when it was involved in a collision with a Hyundai and a van at the junction of Highgate Street and Clarence Street in Upper Gornal near Dudley on the morning of August 6 last year.
Toxicology tests found Mr Robson, aged 28, had 200 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood in his system at the time. The legal limit for driving is 80mg per 100ml.
Assistant coroner Isobel Thistlewaite said Mr Robson, of Addison Close in Gillingham in Dorset, but with links to the area, also had traces of cocaine in his system when he was driving a Seat Leon with Mr Taylor, aged 22, of Burnell Way in Dudley, and Mr Cooney, 22, of Highfield Road in Sedgley, as passengers.
She also said that if Mr Robson had survived the collision, he would have been considered for prosecution for what West Midlands Police had described as "significant offences".
