Cycle Deaths Road 'Not Gritted'

A road on which four members of Rhyl Cycling Club were killed in a collision was not gritted on the morning of the tragedy, an inquest jury has heard.

Thomas Harland, 14, Maurice Broadbent, 61, Dave Horrocks, 55, and Wayne Wilkes, 42, died in January 2006 after a car skidded on ice near Abergele.

Day one of the inquest heard from the father of the youngest victim.

Coroner John Hughes warned the jury the hearing at Abergele would be emotional, but added: "No one is on trial here".

Addressing the jury on Monday, Mr Hughes told them they would hear how the route was not one gritted by Conwy Council on the morning of 8 January, despite frost having been forecast.