Horrifying details of crash that killed six revealed as police officer describes moment baby's bottle was found in wreckage
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A frantic search was launched for a baby amid the wreckage of a horror crash which killed six people, an inquest heard.
Pc Keith Evans, of West Midlands Police, was giving evidence on the final day of inquests for the deadly Birmingham smash when he described arriving at the scene.
The dog handler said he heard a loud bang at about 1.11am on December 17.
Turning his marked police car to investigate, he told Birmingham Coroner's Court: "Then, I saw smoke, steam and dust come up from the underpass.
"I saw there'd been a serious collision."
Pc Evans described how after arriving at the scene on Lee Bank Middleway, a "child's bottle" was found in the wreckage.
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An extensive search was carried out before it was realised no baby had been involved.
An inquest heard drugged-up driver Kasar Jehangir lost control of a speeding Audi in the crash which left him and five others dead.
Senior coroner Louise Hunt concluded Jehangir's Audi S3, which had two defective tyres, was driven at excessive speed, causing him to lose control at 100mph and plough sideways into a taxi coming the other way.
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Mr Jehangir also had cannabis in his blood, which Mrs Hunt found had contributed to the crash.
In the resulting collision, the driver died along with two of his passengers; Tauqeer Hussain and Mohammed Fahsha, who both lived a few doors from one another in Small Heath, Birmingham.
None of them had been wearing seat-belts and were ejected out of the car, along with sole survivor Zakkria Khan.
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The collision also killed the cab's driver, a father-of-six, Imtiaz Mohammed, and his passengers Lucy Davis, a mother-of-two, and her partner, nuclear physicist and rock music fan Lee Jenkins.
Pc Evans described how three of the men in the Audi had suffered catastrophic head injuries and could not be helped.
He immediately radioed in to tell control the collision was almost certainly a fatal accident.
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The 33-year-old cab driver and Ms Davis were also pronounced dead at the scene by medics, while Mr Jenkins died a short time later in hospital.
Asked by a relative of Mr Hussain's whether the men from the Audi were dead when he arrived, Pc Evans said: "I've been a police officer for more than 20 years and I was a soldier for eight years before that.
"There is no doubt in my mind they had all passed away immediately."
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On Wednesday, Mrs Hunt said Mr Fahsha and Mr Jehangir died of multiple injuries, and Mr Hussain, of head injuries.
Concluding their deaths were the result of a road traffic accident, she told the men's families: "I do hope you can remember the loved ones as you described them to me, and not the terrible way you lost them."
Afterwards, those families paid tribute to the victims.
In a statement, Mr Fahsha's relatives said: "Six lives were lost; no doubt leaving behind thousands of mourners and as a community we should try to learn the harsh realities of the most difficult of lessons."