Teenager busy texting on Whatsapp, Snapchat while driving dies in fatal crash!

• She was sending and receiving messages just a minute before the crash.

A teenage girl died in a car crash after she got distracted by WhatsApp and Snapchat messages and collided head-on into an oncoming lorry in England. Although the accident occurred last November, an inquest heard on Tuesday that the 17-year-old driver was sending and receiving messages on her mobile phone just a minute before the fatal crash at 10:30 pm on November 26.Georgia Walton passed her driving test just six months before she was killed in the accident in Market Drayton, Shropshire. She became 'momentarily distracted' before drifting onto the opposite side of the road in her Suzuki Alto and struck the Renault truck, the hearing was told. Walton was helped by the lorry driver as well as emergency services but could not be resuscitated and was pronounced dead at the scene.

"It is my opinion that Georgia was distracted. I know we can't be 100 per cent certain, I do not need to be because I can see no other reason for it," David James, assistant coroner for Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire, was quoted as saying in Daily Mail.

"It just emphasises to road users how even the most momentary distraction on a perfectly easy road to drive can result in such a catastrophe," he added.

Walton was a college student and was working at a stud farm before she went to see her boyfriend. She returned to her parents' home in Market Drayton and later left in her car after they had gone to bed. The lorry driver, Daniel Bell, had just 0.7 seconds to react as Walton drove towards his vehicle, the inquest heard.

In a statement read to the inquest, Bell said: "I was coming to an S-bend. As I was coming through the first part of the bend I could see the car was 50 yards away from me when I realised it was starting to drift towards me. I started to brake. The vehicle did not change course and crossed over the centre white line into my lane. The car hit the middle of my cab. There was an almighty thud."

While, PC Andrew Talbot, of Staffordshire Police's serious collision investigation unit, told the inquest: "Her telephone was in use up to a minute of the collision. We can't say whether the phone was in the holder or whether she was using it in her hand."