A marketing executive who died in a north Oxfordshire crash has been named.

Ethan Chance, 23, was the passenger in a white Audi TT that came off the A422 Stratford Road, Wroxton, on the evening of April 24 and struck a tree.

Mr Chance, a High Wycombe-born marketing executive who lived in Silverstone, Northamptonshire, died at the scene. An air ambulance doctor verified his death shortly after 8pm.

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Opening an inquest into Mr Chance’s death this week, senior coroner for Oxfordshire Darren Salter said a post-mortem had been carried out and the cause of death given as multiple injuries.

A full inquest will take place at Oxford Coroner’s Court in New Road on October 19.

The purpose of an inquest is to establish the identity of the person who died and how they came by their death.

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