Two people died after a police officer rushing to reports of a fight on Christmas Day at 103mph lost control of his vehicle and struck another car, an inquest heard.
PC Dave Fields, 45, and Lorraine Stephenson, 61, both died in the crash on the A57 near Sheffield at 8.20pm on December 25 2017.
The police officer was on his way 'quite rapidly' to a report of violence between 15 people, senior coroner Christopher Dorries told a jury inquest at Sheffield Coroners' Court.
The call had been made just minutes before the fatal collision on a road with a 50mph speed limit.
PC Dave Fields, 45, was on his way 'quite rapidly' to a report of violence between 15 people, senior coroner Christopher Dorries told a jury inquest at Sheffield Coroners' Court
The marked BMW 3 Series driven by the officer, who was coming towards the end of his shift, spun in the road on surface water from heavy rain before colliding with a silver Citroen C3 in which Mrs Stephenson was a passenger.
The inquest at Sheffield's Medico-Legal Centre heard that the police car's data recorder said the vehicle was travelling at 103mph just before it lost control.
According to speedometers for both vehicles which froze at the time of the collision, the BMW was travelling at 74mph and the Citroen was travelling at 32mph - resulting in an impact speed of over 100mph.
Both victims died following the collision.
The marked BMW 3 Series driven by the officer, who was coming towards the end of his shift, spun in the road on surface water from heavy rain before colliding with a silver Citroen C3 in which Lorraine Stephenson was a passenger
Supt. Bob Chapman, who leads South Yorkshire Police's force communications and control room, said PC Fields was responding to a 999 call.
A call had been received at 8.12pm by call police handlers made by a member of the public who had reported 15 people fighting - including one with a metal bar.
Supt. Champan said the member of public who made the call told call handlers the scene was 'getting lively'.
The incident was allocated at 8.14pm to PC Fields and two other police vehicles because of the immediacy of the nature of the call, the inquest heard.
At around the same time of the crash, the first officer to arrive at the scene confirmed there was 'no fighting and no one to be seen'.
The jury was told the call to stand
