Cost-cutting council ‘contributed to death of student’ by switching off street lights – Daily Telegraph

Posted November 25th, 2013 in budgets, inquests, local government, news, road traffic by tracey

‘A coroner has said a council switching off street lights as a cost-cutting measure contributed to the death of a student. The verdict came following an inquest into the death of 18-year-old Warwick University student Archie Wellbelove, who died after he was hit by a taxi on the A452 near Leamington in the early hours of December 7 2012.’

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Daily Telegraph, 25th November 2013

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk