A RETIRED head teacher died of multiple injuries after a car accident last week.

At the opening of the inquest into the death of Edna Anforth, 87, her son Philip, of Chestnut Cottage, Grindleton, said she was frail but mentally very alert.

She had lived at Paddock Lodge residential home, Burnley, for a year

He had last seen her on November 8 and received a phone call last Tuesday to say she had been involved in an accident in Burnley and was in the town's general hospital. Mr Adforth said: "At first she had seemed all right. She was aware that I was there but on the Thursday she died."

Mrs Anforth had been head of Lionel Street School, Burnley.

The inquest was adjourned to a later date for police files to be completed.

Two other passengers in the Vauxhall Cavalier which crashed on Windermere Avenue, Burnley, also residents in the same home for the elderly, are still detained in Burnley General Hospital.

Sarah Wilkinson, 88, is described as "stable" and Marjorie Dearden, 76, "comfortable".

The car was driven by Michael Henaghan, 55, of Easington Road, Dunsop Bridge, husband of the owner of the residential home. He was treated in hospital for a hand injury.

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