Terry Brown, left, who was killed in an accident on the A4, pictured with his mother Cherry Carr and brothers Colin and SimonDEPUTY Wiltshire coroner Williams Baiche has recorded a verdict of accidental death on motorcyclist Terry Brown, 22, who died following a collision in Fyfield on June 14 last year.

Mr Brown, who lived in Ash Walk, Devizes, was certified dead at the scene after his Suzuki 600cc motorcycle crashed into the side of a VW Golf driven by 89-year-old Blanche Cardale.

Mrs Cardale, whose home at Fyfield is just yards from the scene of the accident, has been charged with careless driving.

She was due to appear before Kennet Magistrates on Tuesday but the Crown Prosecution Service will have to decide whether to continue with the case in the light of the coroner's decision, said a police spokesman.

Mrs Cardale did not attend the inquest and was represented by a solicitor with another lawyer representing her insurers, NFU Mutual.

Mr Brown's mother and father and brother Colin were at the Swindon inquest on Thursday but had no comment to make on the verdict.

The cause of death was stated as multiple head injuries. The inquest heard that Mrs Cardale had pulled up at the Lower Fyfield side turning on the A4 Marlborough-Beckhampton road.

Witness Denise Dixon was driving up the hill towards her home in Avebury and, as she was about half-way up the hill between the Fyfield filling station and the Lower Fyfield junction, she could see a red car waiting to pull out.

Mrs Dixon said: "I was going slow because I did not know if she was going to come out. When I was about 20-30 yards from the junction the red car suddenly pulled out in front of me. It pulled out very fast.

"I was so close to the junction I thought the car had hit me but it hadn't, it had hit a motorcycle that was overtaking me."

Mrs Dixon saw the motorcyclist thrown in the air and land on his shoulder before rolling onto his side.

Answering the coroner, Mrs Dixon said she considered Mrs Cardale's actions "unnecessary and negligent".

Mrs Dixon added: "Had this driver been more thoughtful and careful this accident would not have happened."

Other drivers of cars following Mrs Dixon said they had been overtaken by the yellow Suzuki bike.

Psychiatric nurse Louise Jerwiewycz from Swindon said: "When he passed me it was a bit quick but I didn't think it was dangerous."

Semi-retired sales manager Christopher Smith from Devizes said: "It overtook me smoothly, he was not going excessively fast."

Other people were tending the motorcyclist so Mr Smith assisted Mrs Cardale from her car. "She was traumatised. She did not know where she was or what had happened," he said.

Process manager Alison Twomey from Swindon said the bike passed her at between 60-70mph and seconds later, about 100 metres ahead, she saw debris flying in the air.

PC John Milner interviewed Mrs Cardale who told him she pulled up at the junction. "There was nothing coming in either direction. I was just getting to the other side of the road when, like a bat out of hell, this motorcycle appeared and banged into me."

Mrs Cardale told the officer: "I looked both ways when I got to the junction. It was perfectly safe.

"That stretch of road is never empty but it was perfectly safe for me to emerge. The motorcycle appeared from behind some cars and, I say again, like a bat out of hell."

Her reported comments from gasps from members of the Brown family.

Mrs Cardale told the officer she reckoned the speed of the motorbike was about 100mph. But PC Milner, an accident investigator and vehicle examiner, calculated from the damage to the motorcycle that its speed at the time of impact was about 20mph.

Robert Brown said that his son had worked a 12-hour shift as a tyre maker at Melksham finishing at 6am and had ridden his motorcycle to Verwood in Dorset where it was serviced. On his way home he stopped at the home of his mother, Cherry Carr, in Burbage.

The coroner said that, despite Mr Brown having worked through the night, there was no evidence that fatigue played any part in the tragedy.

Mr Baiche said: "It does not seem that any significant blame or any blame at all can be attached to the motorcyclist."