‘Perfect’ teenager, 17, killed after car rolled downhill and ‘flipped’, inquest opener hears

A 17-year-old woman died after getting into a parked car which rolled down a hill and flipped over, an inquest opening heard this morning (January 26).

Aaliyah Sedley-Jones, also known by family and friends as ‘Lily’, was pronounced dead at the scene on Spring Hill in Weston-super-Mare, despite attempts by paramedics to save her on the evening of January 5.

The inquest opening at Avon Coroner’s Court heard that the teenager had got into her father’s parked car which then, for ‘reasons unknown’, rolled down the hill and ‘flipped’.

Lily, who was born in Bristol and lived in Milton Road in Weston, had been working as an apprentice nursery care worker.

Days after her death, her mother released a tribute through Avon and Somerset Police in which she said ‘taken from us at the worst age of only 17 in a sudden tragic accident that will forever haunt us’.

She described her daughter as her best friend who ‘lit up any and every room’.

She said: “Lily, you were taken just as your life was beginning and you were so excited for everything you had to look forward to.”

“You made the most of every single day of your life.

“You were my best friend, a breath of fresh air and you lit up any and every room you walked into.

“You were so scared of losing anyone you loved and the only comfort I have is that at least now you will never have to suffer the pain everyone that knows you is feeling right now.

“You genuinely were too perfect for this cruel world and the time where I can be with you again cannot come soon enough.”

The provisional cause of death was given as ‘unascertained’.

Assistant coroner for the Avon area, Peter Harrowing, listed the full inquest for May 11 at 10am.