An inquest has confirmed the details of Phil Spencer’s parents’ tragic death after a car accident last August.
The Location, Location, Location star’s mum sadly died of a lung infection and brain injury after being underwater for 20 minutes following the accident on their family farm.
Anne, 82, and Richard, 89, died in August 2023 when their car went into a river at their home. It was reported that they were on their way to lunch at a pub when their car went off the road.
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Phil’s parents were pulled from the car and taken to the hospital where Richard was pronounced dead. Anne died shortly after, while another woman in the vehicle suffered minor injuries.
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The inquest was heard at County Hall in Maidstone, Kent, on Monday (November 20) morning. Area Coroner Sarah Clarke told the court Anne was driving her Toyota down a private road from the family home to the bridge on their farm which covered the Nail Bourne River.
Her husband Richard was next to her in the passenger seat while their carer was behind them. The inquest heard that the car slipped off the edge and overturned as it approached the bridge, which submerged all three of them in three feet of water.
The carer managed to escape through the window and call for help before paramedics arrived and took them to the hospital where they were pronounced dead. An inquest had already taken place for Richard the month prior, with his cause of death rules as Aspiration Pneumonitis, an injury of the lungs.
Phil confirmed the death of his parents earlier this year as he paid tribute to his “amazing” mum and dad. He wrote: “As a family we are all trying to hold onto the fact mum and dad went together and neither will ever have to mourn the loss of the other one. Which is a blessing in itself.”
He said his parents had been doing well, but admitted that his mum’s Parkinson’s and dad’s Dementia had been worsening. Phil added: “Mum said to me only a week ago that she had resigned to thinking, ‘now it looks like we will probably go together’, and so they did. That was what God had planned for them – and it was a good plan.”
He ended the post with: “It feels horrendous right now, but after almost 60 years of marriage – to die together on the farm they so loved will, I know, be a comfort in the future. Mum and Dad are together which is precisely where they would have wanted to be.”
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