AN inquest was being held today into the deaths of six day-trippers killed after their coach crashed returning from France.
The victims were in a party returning to Evesham when the vehicle overturned on the M25 near Iver, Buckinghamshire, on November 16.
The three-day hearing, before Buckinghamshire coroner Richard Hulett, at Aylesbury, was expected to focus on whether one of the drivers may have fallen asleep at the wheel.
Drivers Graham Spring, aged 56, and Christopher Sloane, 42, and Mr Sloane's wife Karen, 38, all from Evesham, died in the 11pm crash.
Passenger
Bernard Coppin, 62, from Drakes Broughton, near Pershore, Norma Evans, 54, of Badsey, near Evesham, were also killed.
Another passenger, Jane Wedgbury, 39, from Alcester, Warwickshire, died in hospital three days later.
The other 37 passengers, who were returning to Evesham from a trip to Boulogne, were all injured when the coach left the motorway and careered down an embankment.
Mr and Mrs Spring's two children, Stephen, then aged eight, and Anne, 16, were orphaned.
The family-run coach firm, WR Spring and Son closed following the accident.
Police said at the time they were investigating the possibility that one of the drivers may have fallen asleep at the wheel.
They said no other vehicle was involved in the accident.
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