THE sisters of a man flung from his car and killed in a road crash pleaded with motorists to wear their seatbelts.

Shabana and Farzana Wyaid, of Wood Green, Banbury, told drivers to belt up after an inquest into the death of their brother, Sajid Wyaid, delivered a verdict of accidental death.

Oxford coroner Nicholas Gardiner heard that Mr Sajid, 27, of Boxhedge Road in Banbury, would almost certainly have survived had he been wearing a seatbelt.

After the inquest, Shabana said: "I am so angry he wasn't wearing a seatbelt, I could have slapped him one.

"I would just say to other drivers, put your seatbelt on."

And Mr Gardiner echoed her warning.

He said: "Had he been wearing a seatbelt he would have been restrained within his vehicle and it is likely he would have suffered far fewer injuries.

"Passenger compartments are carefully designed to protect people in just these circumstances.

"I have yet to come across a case where a person had clearly suffered worse injuries as a result of wearing a seatbelt but I have come across many cases where the occupants have been flung from their cars when not wearing a seatbelt and they are far more liable to have serious injuries."

The inquest heard that Mr Wyaid had been driving along the A4260 towards Kidlington near Shipton-on-Cherwell when the accident happened on May 21, 2006 - the same stretch of road where Dr Margaret Davidson died just a week previously.

There were no witnesses to the accident but Pc Mark Henderson and Pc Lee Churchill arrived at the scene shortly after it happened.

Pc Churchill said: "On cresting the rise I saw to my right a gap in the hedgerow and leaf debris scattered across the road as well as part of a vehicle.

"I got out and ran towards the gap."

He said he saw a body and called out but he was unresponsive and when he reached the body the man was struggling to breathe and could not talk.

Ambulances arrived within 10 minutes and Mr Wyaid was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, but died of multiple injuries, including a fractured spine, the following morning.

Accident investigator Pc Gary Baldwin said: "It's highly likely that had he been wearing a seatbelt, the driver would have survived the accident.

"The passenger compartment was largely intact and had he remained in it I'm quite confident that while he undoubtedly would have been injured to some extent, injuries would not have been anywhere near as severe."

He said a notice from Northamptonshire Police inviting him to attend a course as he had been stopped while not wearing a seatbelt was found in the glove compartment.

Pc Baldwin said it was not possible to judge the speed at which Mr Wyaid had been travelling along the 50mph-limit road but said the location of the car, which had rolled 80 metres from where it had left the road, would suggest it had been high.

Miss Wyaid paid tribute to her brother, a security officer and a former pupil at Banbury School, and said: "He was fun and bubbly, a loving father of two and we miss him a lot. It's been really difficult."