A mother whose son died in a crash while giving five friends a lift home from a pub is calling for a change in the law for inexperienced drivers. Joe Walsh, 19, and Toby Barraclough, 18, were both killed when the car Joe was driving hit a stone wall in Shelf, near Halifax, after the group had been drinking at the nearby Shoulder of Mutton in October 2023. An inquest into their deaths at Bradford Coroner’s Court last month heard that Joe was believed to have drunk four or five pints of lager and had taken cocaine. Both senior coroner Martin Fleming and Joe’s mother Lisa Wright want the Department for Transport to restrict the number of passengers new drivers can carry.
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