RAY OF LIGHT: Shehnaz with baby Isa who has given their grieving family joy
THE father of a young man who was killed in a car accident, has told how his grandson reminds him of his son every day.
Baby Isa Lorgat was just 10 days old when his dad Junaid was killed after he lost control of his people carrier on the Grane Road.
Junaid's father Bashir, 47, who spoke at the family home in Burnley Road, Blackburn, said Isa who is now eight months old looks exactly like his father, has his personality and even has his smile.
He said the family including widow Shehnaz, 23, will make sure Isa knows who everything about Junaid as he grows up.
Bashir said: "Isa looks like his dad, he is exactly like him and everyone says he looks like his dad.
"He is the one who has kept all of us going since this happened.
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"He takes after his dad and we will tell him about his father.
"Friends and relations have been very, very supportive to us too."
An inquest was told that newsagent Junaid had lost control of the Hyundai Trajet he was driving while overtaking a lorry and motorcycle near the Cloughhead Centre, and the vehicle rolled down an embankment.
The father-of-one travelled down the Grane Road daily from Blackburn to start work at the family paper shop in Jubilee Road, Haslingden, the Burnley inquest was told.
HGV driver Leonard Clough said that he was driving his seven-and-a-half tonne lorry along the road just before dawn on August 15 last year when he saw Mr Lorgat's Hyundai overtake him near the Cloughhead Centre.
Mr Lorgat's Hyundai left the road, rolled down an embankment and came to rest beside a fence, landing on its roof, the inquest heard. Mr Lorgat was pronounced dead at the scene.
Bashir said: "Junaid was my eldest child and running the business for us. He was a good boy but he was closer to my wife Johra.
"We have lost Junaid but that was Allah's will but we have been left with his son.
"Isa has his father face and smile, and was exactly the same when Junaid was a baby."
Mr Lorgat's mother Johra, 45, and brother Jabbir were also injured as a result of the crash.
And Mr Lorgat's cousin Mohammed Nadat, a 14-year-old who had been visiting from Paris, also suffered "significant" injuries in the incident.
Recording a narrative verdict, East Lancashire coroner Richard Taylor said: "Mr Lorgat died as a result of a failure to negotiate the corner due to his speed on a damp downhill road, having undertaken an overtaking manoeuvre in a confined space."
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