Brother and sister died of head injuries after car hit their e-scooter

Roman Casselden, 16, and sister Darcie Casselden were both declared dead at the scene of the collision in Ashlyns in Pitsea (Picture: PA)

A teenage boy and his nine-year-old sister died after suffering traumatic head injuries when the e-scooter they were riding was was hit by a car, an inquest heard.

Roman Casselden, 16, and sister Darcie Casselden were both declared dead at the scene of the collision in Ashlyns in Pitsea, Essex, on February 1.

Essex area coroner Michelle Brown, who opened separate inquests into their deaths in Chelmsford on Wednesday, said the siblings had been ‘travelling on an e-scooter’.

She said the e-scooter was ‘involved in a collision with a motor vehicle that was travelling east along Ashlyns approaching Stokefelde’.

The coroner said emergency services attended, and Darcie was pronounced dead at 7.10pm, and Roman at 7.50pm.

The coroner gave the provisional cause of death for each child as ‘traumatic head injury pending further investigation’.

She said that formal identification was undertaken by their mother.

‘Police have advised that the driver of the vehicle was subsequently arrested for various offences,’ the coroner said.

She said that police requested that the inquest be suspended ‘pending police investigation and possible prosecution’.

Handout photo issued by Essex Police of 16-year-old Roman Casselden (Picture: Essex Police/PA)

Nine year-old Darcie also died in the crash (Picture: Essex Police)

Flowers left near to the scene of the collision (Picture: PA)

Ms Brown suspended proceedings in both inquests and said the position would be reviewed in four months.

She added: ‘I would just like to extend my personal sympathy.’

Ms Brown said Roman and Darcie were ‘very young’ and the case had ‘very tragic circumstances’.

The children’s mother Emma said, in a statement released through police, that ‘their love, kindness, and spirit live on in the hearts of all who knew them’.

Essex Police said two people arrested in connection with the incident have been released, with a woman bailed and a man released under investigation.

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