THE family that ran the Vale coach firm involved in the fatal M25 accident which claimed six lives is braced for legal action from passengers aboard the vehicle when it crashed.

Pam Spring, who ran WR Spring with her brother, Graham, who died in the tragedy, with another coach driver, Chris Sloane, last November, said: "In anything like this, you expect it.

"Obviously, we have got all the proper insurance in place. We have taken all the proper requirements to cover us against public liability and civil suits.

"It's something we're going to have to deal with as it comes in."

An inquest last week recorded verdicts of accidental death on the six people who died when the firm's coach veered off the road and plunged down an embankment on the way back from a cross-Channel shopping day trip last November.

After the conclusion of the inquest, Nicholas Yates, a solicitor acting for 16 people injured in the crash, said: "Clearly, as a consequence of the inquest, we will consider the evidence and it is expected that action will follow. "It has been very traumatic for everyone."

Pam Spring said: "I know how a lot of people are feeling because I lost my brother, so, with the ones that did lose people, I can understand their grief."