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A mother and son were found drowned seven hours after their car came off a sharp bend on a country road and plunged into a pond, an inquest heard today.
Vivien Radocz, 28 and her son Milan Radocz, were recovered from the wreckage near an RAF base in Wittering, Cambridgeshire, after a fisherman discovered their car upside down in the water seven hours after the crash.
The inquest heard Mrs Radocz 'failed to negotiate a sharp left-hand bend' and crashed through a chain-link fence into the pond while driving her blue Ford Focus in September last year.
It was only when fisherman and RAF officer John Smith discovered the car upside down seven hours later that RAF guards and emergency services were alerted.
But the pair from Stamford, Lincolnshire, were pronounced dead that day after they were recovered from the wreckage.
Vivien Radocz, 28, and her young son Milan Radocz of Stamford, Lincolnshire, were found in a blue Ford Focus seven hours after crashing into the water near RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire, last September
Mrs Radocz died at the scene, while her son was rushed to Peterborough Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Pictured: the cordoned off pond
The 2010 blue Ford Focus spun off the road at around 10.35am crashing through a chain-link fence.
The car then plunged into a pond where it stayed for seven hours before being discovered by fisherman and RAF officer John Smith at 5.30pm who did not realise anyone was still in the vehicle.
He spotted that the fence was pushed over and then saw a vehicle upside down in the water, the back two wheels sticking out of the surface.
He called the guards of the RAF Wittering air force base which the pond belonged to who arrived 20 minutes after. The guards then called emergency services at 18.20.
Mr Smith said: 'I didn't call the emergency services because I thought the car had been there for a while due to it being on military premises.'
It was only after police, paramedics and the fire service arrived did officers realise Mrs Radocz and Milan were in the vehicle.
A fire officer smashed through the window of the passenger side
