An East Yorkshire cyclist tragically died after being hit by a car, an inquest heard.

Kadell Bartlett, 15, from Snaith, was hit on the A19 by the junction towards Eggborough Power Station, near Selby, while riding his bicycle with a friend. He died at the scene.

An inquest heard that the sad accident happened at around 9.10pm on July 16, 2018, and the driver who crashed into Kadell said the teenager appeared to "veer into him" as he was trying to overtake, reports Yorkshire Live.

Tributes were paid by Kadell's friend to him, saying he was "an inspiration", "always happy" and "always had a smile on his face".

Kadell's friend also said he was riding on the left-hand side of the carriageway, when he heard the vehicle approaching.

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He turned around and tried to warn Kadell by shouting "car" at him but didn't think he was heard and did not witness the collision as he was facing forward.

According to the friend, the car going past "was like a lightning bolt" and he felt "a big gust of wind" and the driver "didn't give us any room" and he heard the car accelerating before the collision.

The boy also said in his statement that Kadell wasn't wearing a helmet, had smoked cannabis earlier in the day and could well have been wearing earphones in both ears while he was cycling as he didn't hear his warning calls.

A police officer later said that he found two earbuds in the road after the collision had happened.

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Matthew Clark, who was driving a Volkswagen Passat, claimed Kadell "turned into him" as he was trying to drive past him and his friend.

The driver said he put the car in adaptive cruise control (ACC) at 60mph when he went onto the A19 and he saw the two boys as he passed the junction with Selby Road.

He said Kadell was riding his bike close to the centre of his lane as he approached them at "about 50 or 60 mph" and he then touched the brakes and entered the right hand carriageway to try and overtake him.

Mr Clark said that Kadell then made an "immediate turn to the right" towards his car before he hit the bonnet and went over the roof and that it "all happened in a split second".

Then he said he made a sharp turn to the right after the impact and slammed the brakes on before coming to a halt on the grass verge to the right of the road.

Coroner Jon Heath asked Mr Clark for his thoughts on evidence given the previous day by a witness who said he saw the driver veer to the left before he hit Kadell.

"That is completely untrue. The dust was kicked up from the right hand side of my car. You can see my car was on the other side of the road from the evidence of the CCTV," said Mr Clark.

"There's been significant differences between that which you gave the police and that which you've told the court. I have to suggest that you are struggling to give a consistent and accurate description of what happened," said Mr Kwasnic.

Asked to give his version of events, Mr Clark said: "It was an unfortunate event. It was two people in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"It was an accident. There's no other way for me to summarise. If I was five minutes down the road it would not have happened."

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Mr Kwasnic suggested Mr Clark didn't know what had happened as he was distracted while driving and the latter responded: "I feel like you are taking it out of context. I meant it's not right what has happened.

"I have a child the same age. I'm human. Under no circumstances was that a right thing to happen. So for you to turn that in to the question that you have is disgusting."

Emergency workers and hospital staff who tended to Kadell concluded he had died from brain trauma.

The inquest continues.