A HOLIDAYMAKER died after a tractor overturned at a Llyn holiday park, an inquest has heard.

Chloe Louise Farrell, 22, from Honeysuckle Lane, Colwyn Bay, died in May this year at The Warren holiday park at Abersoch.

An inquest held in Caernarfon last week was told Miss Farrell and her boyfriend Andrew Huddlestone had used the tractor to tow a jet ski to the beach. After they returned ashore Miss Farrell had driven the tractor back to their chalet.

North West Wales senior coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones said: “It appears Chloe Farrell decided to turn it around so it could be parked in the way it was normally parked. This turning manoeuvre went wrong and caused her death. She would probably have wanted to select reverse gear. But it would appear that the tractor was put into second gear. This is logically what probably happened so instead of going backward the tractor went forward.”

The tractor – almost half a century old and without a cab or anti-roll bar – also had a hand throttle and foot throttle, “a complicating factor.”

Mr Pritchard Jones said he believed Miss Farrell expected the tractor to stop or slow, but it carried on into the hull of a rib and turned over, crushing her. He recorded a conclusion of an accident.

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