The car crash that killed Francesca-Lee Platt in April 2006 was particularly tragic because it could so easily have been prevented. The 18-year-old was catapulted through the windscreen of her best friend's Fiat Punto when her friend failed to observe a no-right-turn sign in Wythenshawe, Manchester, and drove into the path of an oncoming car. Yet, as the coroner commented at the inquest, the main reason Francesca-Lee died was because she was not wearing a seat belt. The irony was brutal. Hours before the accident, the two girls had been fined for this very offence by police. And the friend who heeded the policeman's advice survived.
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