A mother who became a heroin addict after she struggled to cope with being the sole survivor of a car crash that killed three of her friends died from sepsis brought on by long term drug use, an inquest has heard.
Mother-of-two Stacey Haslam, 34, suffered serious injuries when her friend s car smashed into a lamppost and flipped over on the A666 in Darwen, Lancashire, in October 2011.
A coroner has heard the crash had a long term impact on Stacey s life as she went on to develop an addiction to crack cocaine and heroin.
In July of this year, she was admitted to the Royal Bolton Hospital with a leg abscess, thought to have developed from prolonged heroin abuse.