A young driver who died after a car somersaulted and crashed in Bradford city centre paid "a heavy price" for speeding away from police, an inquest heard.

Shaun Mitchell, 22, had to be cut free from wreckage after the Vauxhall Cavalier he was driving ploughed into a wall on the Forster Square roundabout. Two passengers suffered serious injuries in the night-time smash when they were flung from the car before the vehicle ended up on its roof.

Five days after the accident last December, Mr Mitchell died from bronchopneumonia due to a head injury.

The inquest was told how police stopped the car on Manor Row to speak to the men following complaints about a disturbance at a hotel, but the vehicle sped away from them.

However, deputy coroner Mark Hinchliffe said he did not believe that Mr Mitchell had been involved in the incident at the Carlton Hotel earlier in the evening.

PC Mark Sutton said he tracked down the Cavalier after picking up a radio message in his car that the men who had left the hotel were being followed by another police vehicle.

But after his colleagues pulled up the Cavalier and got out of their car, it set off.

PC Neil Brown told the hearing: "It sped off at a considerable speed down the road towards Forster Square.

"There were two bodies laid in the road and the Cavalier was laid on its roof."

Accident investigation officer Christopher Bentham said the vehicle was travelling at about 53mph, suffering extensive damage when it struck the roundabout wall before landing on its roof.

Recording a verdict of misadventure on Mr Mitchell, of Blythe Avenue, Bradford, Mr Hinchliffe said: "He had paid a disproportionately heavy price for his foolishness and inexperience that night."

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