A teenager was driving at up to 90mph before a crash which killed him, an inquest heard today.

Henry Avery, 18, died after the accident on the A361 Burford to Lechlade road, near the Cotswold Wildlife Park, on December 6 last year.

Mr Avery's friend and passenger Hugh Hunt, 17, told Oxfordshire coroner Nicholas Gardiner: "We were going fast. I don't know how fast we were going through the bends, but I know at one point we were going 90(mph)."

Speaking after the hearing, the teenager's father, Dave Avery, from Lechlade, Gloucestershire, said: "It's not a good road and I think if they fitted the signs that flash up when a car is travelling too fast, it would stop people from speeding there."

Paramedics and firefighters freed Henry from his car but he died later at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

He had been out with Mr Hunt celebrating buying the car, a Renault Clio, and they were heading to Fairford.

Mr Hunt, of River Walk, Fairford, said: "We were going fast along the straight road, picking up speed. We got to one corner and went around that nicely, then we got to another corner and we crashed."

Recording a verdict of accidental death, Mr Gardiner said: "Excess speed led to him losing control on that bend."