THE parents of a schoolboy who died after crashing a Land Rover have appealed to the last person to see him alive to reveal exactly what happened.

Derek and Elizabeth Makinson pleaded with Sarah Calvert to help them with their grief over the tragic death of their son Luke, 16, after rejecting her version of events.

"Our door is always open for you to come and tell us the whole truth about that night,"

Mrs Makinson said at the inquest into her son's death. "It would cleanse your own conscience and it is the least you can do to help us on our journey of grief."

The inquest heard that Luke, of Moorland Avenue, Clitheroe, had been out with Miss Calvert and other friends in Clitheroe on March 4.

His body was found across the front seat of a Land Rover, belonging to Miss Calvert's parents, in the early hours of the following day.

A police accident investigator said the vehicle was being driven from Downham towards Chatburn when Luke, a pupil at St Augustine's RC School, Billington, lost control and collided with a stone wall on the off-side.

There was a second collision with another wall on the near side before the Land Rover mounted the pavement on the bridge over the A59, coming to a halt on the Chatburn side.

The driver's window of the vehicle was open and accident investigator Brendan Kellett said Luke's head had hit a coping stone as he was thrown sideways.

He said the fact Luke was not wearing a seat belt was less significant than the open window.

The inquest heard that Luke was a regular visitor to Sarah's parents home in Paythorne where he would drive the Land Rover on private land.

Sarah said that on the night of his death they had met up, along with other friends, in Clitheroe and eventually ended up at the home of Kayleigh Jackson in Taylor Street.

She told police Sarah and Luke had disappeared without saying anything.

Later Sarah returned in tears saying she had lost her Land Rover.

At 7.30am the police went to her home with Sarah's boyfriend, David, and said the Land Rover had crashed and Luke had been killed..

Sarah told the inquest she had driven away from Kayleigh's house with Luke and after travelling along the A59 had turned left towards Chatburn.

She said she stopped at a lay-by because she needed to "answer a call of nature." She said Luke drove off and that was the last time she saw him.

She said she expected Luke to come back and get her.

But when he didn't she walked back to Kayleigh's house.

Sarah was asked by Mr Makinson if she had admitted to him and his wife that on the night she had drunk five or six pints of lager and she replied "no."

She denied throwing the keys at Luke as she got out of the Land Rover.

Asked why she had not contacted anyone about the missing vehicle and Luke, despite seeing the emergency vehicles as she walked back to Clitheroe, she said she didn't think they were anything to do with Luke.

A post mortem examination revealed that Luke had nearly double the legal drink drive limit of alcohol in his blood and urine samples showed the level would have been higher.

The medical cause of death was given as head injuries.

Recording a verdict of accidental death, coroner Michael Singleton said he could only begin to imagine the grief and distress that Luke's family and friends were going through.