29-year-old man died after misjudging road he used on a daily basis to work in King's Lynn

An inquest was held yesterday into the death of a 29-year-old man who collided with a tractor on his commute to work.

Laurence Garton, 29, a sales advisor from Lynn, was on his way to work from his home in October last year when his Volkswagen Jetta veered onto the wrong side of the road while negotiating a corner on the B1145 Lynn Road in Gayton.

At the inquest it was heard how the B1145 was a road he was well familiar with, as he drove to work on a daily basis, but on that occasion he had climbed above the speed limit, and has been described as driving like a "rally driver" by witnesses.

Suzanne Godfrey, who was driving behind the tractor at the time of the incident and had considered overtaking it prior, said:"Mr Garton was driving 'like a rally driver when they speed around the corner'," ahead of the fatal crash.

However a conflicting report from another witness Harvey Jermey said: "There was nothing concerning about the way Mr Garton was driving."

Mr Garton veered to the other side of the road into the path of a John Deere tractor being driven by 56-year-old Trevor Long.

Investigations into the collision conducted by the police found that neither driver had consumed any alcohol leading up to the crash and that neither vehicle had any defects that could have contributed to the death of Mr Garton, nor caused his car to behave differently.

Dashcam footage had shown that moments prior to Mr Garton's collision that he had reached speeds of 81mph - 21mph more than the national speed limit the road is set at.

Concluding Mr Garton had died as the result of a road traffic collision, coroner Yvonne Blake said: "Laurence was driving on a road that was very well known to him.

"It appears he was driving above the speed limit when approaching the corner meaning he could not negotiate the bend and the tractor could not react."