INQUESTS have opened into the deaths of two neighbours killed in a crash near Bromsgrove last week.

James Waldron, aged 19, and Shaun Edwards, 20, were killed after the crash on the A451 Bromsgrove to Kidderminster road, near the Park Gate Inn, on Sunday, May 6.

Mr Waldron's Citroen car was involved in a collision with another vehicle before hitting a tree.

The postman died during surgery at Worcester's Ronks-wood Hospital in the early hours of Monday May 7.

His passenger, Mr Edwards, died on Sunday May 6, in hospital.

They both lived in Wardle Way, Kidderminster.

Worcestershire cor-oner Victor Round adjourned the inq-uests for three months, last Friday, May 11, at Worcester's Guild Hall.