Dad’s emotional tribute to ‘cracking lad’ Jack Madsen who died…

The father of a young motorcyclist who died after a collision in Bransholme hopes the family can now move on after an inquest into his son’s death concluded. Jack Madsen was riding his Honda motorcycle in Wawne Road, just a short distance from his home, on Saturday, August 29, 2020. He was involved in a collision with a blue Volkswagen Polo at the junction with Littleham Close. Emergency services quickly arrived after the collision at 6pm but Jack, 22, was pronounced dead at the scene. Read more: Driver 'never saw bike' before crash that killed Jack Madsen, inquest hears After the two-day inquest in Hull, John Madsen paid an emotional tribute saying: “Jack left a young daughter who was just one at the time and will not remember him. He has also left his family and countless friends behind who loved him so much. “He was such a nice kid and would do anything for anybody. He was just a high quality human being. “He was a bit of a jack the lad and no angel and he was known as ‘little Del Boy’. But he was an absolutely cracking lad and I am proud to be his dad.” Mr Madsen now says the family has to find a way of getting on with their lives without Jack. “The completion of the inquest will never give us closure as we will always have to live without Jack,” he said, “but it does put to bed some of the distressing legal aspects of it all. We now have to find our own new normal. I will just remember Jack as someone who brought light into my life from the day he was born until the day he died. “ Jack Madsen who died in a motorcycle crash in Bransholme The inquest into the death of Jack opened on Monday almost three years after the tragedy in Bransholme and concluded on Tuesday. Evidence was heard from police collision investigator Robert Sawyers on the second day who produced a report into the incident. He said he could find no defects or debris in the road which could have contributed to the collision and the road was in good condition. Both the VW Polo and the Honda motorcycle were examined and neither were found to have had any defects likely to contribute to or cause the collision. CCTV footage was shown from the dashcam footage filmed by a taxi passing by at the time. The footage shows the taxi driver passing Littleham Close which captured the VW Polo waiting at the junction and shortly after the motorcycle passing by moments before the collision. Mr Sawyers says his colleague calculated the speed of Jack’s motorcycle at just over 60mph which is twice the speed limit for Wawne Road. Mr Sawyers also worked out the stopping distance had Jack been travelling at 30mph which would have been 33 metres but travelling at 60mph meant the stopping distance would be over 93 metres. Floral tributes left for Bransholme crash victim Jack Madsen at Wawne Road Mr Sawyers concluded: “The driver failed to give way to the oncoming motorcycle and crossed the junction when it was not safe to do so. However, the motorcyclist was riding at twice the speed limit and was under the influence of drugs at the time. The cause of the collision rests with both the driver and the rider.” On Monday, the inquest heard from the driver of the VW Polo involved in the collision who gave evidence via video link. The driver said she had passed her test in May 2019 and drove daily. She said she lived close by and used the Littleham Close junction with Wayne Road every day. On the day of the incident, the driver was with her nana and they were going see her mother. The driver said the amount of traffic on the road was about average, but she had to wait for a while to find a gap to pull out. She told the inquest: “I looked both ways before pulling out of the junction turning right. There was a car turning left into Littleham Close and I waited until it began to turn. “The view was clear and I wasn’t distracted by anything. After that, all I heard was a bang as something hit my car in the driver’s door. I did not see anything until then. “I was in shock, but I didn’t realise it was a motorcycle until I managed to get out of the car from the passenger side. I just r
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