I feel really sorry for the two girls in this report, they were doing nothing wrong, not speeding, no drink or drugs, car in good order, just unlucky.

The relevant paragraph is "PC Paul Davenport’s statement said tests found the car to be in good mechanical order, but the rear offside tyre was under-inflated by 34 per cent."

If the death of two girls depends upon a tyre being around 10 psi lower than it should have been, what should or could have been done to prevent this?

I ask this sincererly, as I am amazed how many vehicles I check the tyre pressures on to find they are set to 22 psi instead of 2.2 bar.

Should the public even be allowed to check pressures with the (usually faulty) forecourt equipment or is it just a matter of "there by the grace of God go I"?

Graham