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Tragic Brit drink driver flew 72ft in pal's Subaru before night hunters found wreckage
teenager on his gap year died when the car he was driving flew 72ft (22 metres) through the air and landed upside down in a paddock after he lost control on a country road in New Zealand.Jack Steven Roberts was working as trainee gamekeeper at Craigmore Station in Maungati, a large farm in the foothills of the Southern Alps in South Canterbury, on the country's South Island.Emergency services found the 18-year-old farm worker from Stroud, Gloucestershire, upside down in the driver's seat and unresponsive, with his seat belt still on. The passenger Harry Campion – also from the UK and who also worked at the farm – was found on the ground unconscious but breathing.Roberts' death in February 2018 was an "avoidable tragedy", Christchurch coroner Sue Johnson said in an inquest decision released on Monday (May 30).