A teenage driver who killed three friends during a crash on the way home of school, previously promised the father of the victims that he would be 'careful' behind the wheel, can reveal MailOnline.
Edward Spencer, 19, made the promise to the father of Matilda Secombe before the collision, who took place only five weeks after he had passed his test.
And Matilda, 16, who was known as Tilly, had been worried about the way his driving only a few hours for the fatal collision, her father revealed.
She only traveled for about a week to and from Spencer before he lost control of his Ford Fiesta on a bend and crashed with a Fiat who drove in the opposite direction.
The father of the schoolgirl, James, a parish councilor, had previously begged Spencer, now 19, to ensure when managing his young friends, but Mr Secombe destroyed the mail: “He is clearly not”.
Mr and Mrs Secombe said they still learned Tilly's friends at the school, which she had joined the sixth form to the sixth form, at the time of her death.
But they had met Spencer, who comes from an agricultural family in nearby Newbold on Stour and whose mother has a beauty salon, at a party that Tilly had organized at home for friends.
Mr Secombe said: 'That was when we agreed to let her go into the car – something we now wish we had never done before.
Edward Spencer, 19, depicted here outside Warwick Crown Court during an earlier performance, pleaded guilty of killing three of his friends in a Ford Fiesta -Crash in April 2023
Spencer made the promise to the father of Matilda Secombe before the collision, which took place only five weeks after he had passed his test
The scene of the crash where Edward Spencer bumped into a Ford Fiesta with a Fiat 500 with four people
“I said here in our living room (spencer) face -to -face to be careful when driving people in the car and he promised me he would be. It is clear that he didn't. '
Spencer received an interim prohibition on Warwick Crown Court on Monday after he admitted three counts to causing death by careless driving and causing three counts of serious injuries due to careless driving. He will be convicted next month, but judge Andrew Lockhart KC warned the teenager that he was confronted with a custodial sentence.
Mr Secombe and wife Juliet, who runs her own soft furnitureing company, are part of a campaign that called for the introduction of 'graduated' driving permits for new road users who would transport restrictions, such as a ban on the blast of younger passengers.
The couple said that Spencer, who was admitted to the hospital as a result of the crash, seemed to 'continue as normal' in the months that followed and even took a job on a wooden yard a stone's throw from their own house.
After the crash in April 2023, who also claimed life from Twin Harry Purcell, 17, and fellow-six-formator Frank Wormald, 16, and three passengers of the Fiat seriously injured, another friend told the police that Tilly had worried about driving Spencer.
Mr Secombe, 55, said: 'Tilly had not told us that Spencer was driving bad because she knew that if she had done that, we would have put an end and she would have to go back to the use of the school bus.
“But after the incident, a friend gave a statement to the police to say that she was worried about driving Ed – she had this trusted from her death in the afternoon.”
Mr Secombe, from Preston on Stour, Warwickshire, said that messages were subsequently found on Tilly's phone, who showed that there was clearly another (driving) incident she was clear about – to which she received a warfare reaction (from Spencer). '
Harry Purcell, 17, was in the Ford Fiesta when Spencer crashed last year
Frank Wormald, 16, died in the hospital a day after his friends, who were also deadly injured in the crash
He said that his daughter Spencer petrol money had paid for the travels to and from Chipping Campden School just above the border of the province in Gloucestershire. The court heard Spencer – a sharp rugby player – the circumstances around the April 2023 collision do not remember on the B4035 in Stretton -on -Fosse, Warwickshire.
Mrs Secombe, 53, said: 'What has been so shocking to us is his behavior before and also after the crash.
“He has not shown any regret.”
Spencer appeared in court to admit his crimes on the day he was originally tried.
Mrs Secombe added: 'Until yesterday he did not confront what he did for two years. His legal team ordered two reports from the accident investigation – one of which was legally helped – in addition to the police investigation.'
Mr Secombe added: “It is just like the value of the life of Tilly, Frank and Harry means nothing for him.”
Spencer also argued guilty of three counts of causing serious injury due to carefree driving
The grieving father said it was 'sickening' to think that Spencer might have driven to work on the Houtwerf that 'almost in the sight of Tilly's bedroom window'.
His wife added: “It caused us a lot of fear – we have to pass that garden every day.”
The couple is part of the campaign group does not forget that families unite – a group of more than 100 people who have lost loved ones to collisions involved. It is campaigning for the government to introduce graduated driving licenses, including limitations such as a ban on new drivers who bear younger passengers, a late night clock for the first few months after passing a driving test or other measures such as a minimum learning period.
Mrs Secombe said: 'If there had been a ban on six months at that time to wear passengers for young drivers (from Spencer's fatal collision), it would have saved Tilly's life.
'We would never have left Spencer driver Tilly back from a party, but this was a trip to school and back.
'Safety on rural roads is a major problem. The road outside our house has a limit of 60 mph. I would never ride with it at 60 MPH, but some younger drivers do.
'Driving permits would help parents in our situation – if there was a law, it would be easier for parents who could then point to that law and say:' You can't go into that car because it is not six months ago that he (the driver) passed his test.
“There is a lot of support for this initiative and I cannot understand why the government no longer does (introduce).”
Police on the site of the fatal crash in the vicinity of Chipping camping in the Cotswolds
But despite the growing shouting for new rules around young or inexperienced drivers, the government told about road safety during a Westminster Hall debate about road safety that it had no plans to introduce more restrictions.
Minister of Roads, Lilian Greenwood, acknowledged that this was an area of ​​'enormous public concern' and said that she is committed to involvement because her department is developing its policy.
“Although we are not considering licenses graduates, we absolutely acknowledge that young people are disproportionate victims of tragic collisions on our ways, and that is why we investigate options to tackle the underlying causes of this without unfairly punishable young drivers,” she said.
Only a few hours after Spencer appeared in court on Monday – building and leaving the building via a side hen – West Mercia Police announced that a third teenager had died after a collision on a country road near Shifnal, Shropshire, on Friday evening.
Simon Evans, 18, from Perton in Wolverhampton was declared dead on the spot, while 17-year-old Jacob Holeman van Codsall, Staffordshire, died in the hospital. A second 17-year-old, Jenson Bridges, from Brewood, Staffordshire, who also traveled in the Audi A1, died as a result of his injuries on Sunday.
