THE family of a teenage boy who was killed in a horror car crash said their lives have been “devastated” by the tragedy.

Adnaan Shafiq’s relatives packed into Bradford Crown Court yesterday to see his friend Mohammed Danyaal, 19, of Bartle Lane, Great Horton, sentenced for causing death by careless driving.

Wearing tops bearing his name and photograph, the 17-year-old’s family wept as they heard details of the crash and watched CCTV footage from the incident.

A victim impact statement from Adnaan’s family read out in court said: “No words can express how we feel.

“Things will never be the same again.

“Adnaan was a great asset to the family.

“He looked after his mum and siblings… he had a bright future ahead of him.

“Now, we just have memories.”

In the statement, his family spoke of Adnaan’s plans to go on pilgrimage, become engaged and get married.

Following his tragic death, thousands of mourners gathered at the Hanfia Masjid Mosque, in Ambler Street, Manningham, to pay their respects to the young man.

Some were forced to stand outside because of the number of people in attendance and one friend said at the time: “It is such a waste, so sad.

“He was so young.”

The court heard the friends were travelling on the Shipley Airedale Road at around midnight on September 27 of last year when the crash happened.

Prosecutor Bashir Ahmed said Danyaal “lost control” of the Seat Leon he was driving, before it hit the curb and mounted a barrier. He said the barrier acted like a ramp, sending the car into the air and catapulting it into a post supporting a signpost gantry.

The car was travelling at 49mph in a 40mph area.

Adnaan was pronounced dead at the scene. Mr Ahmed said the car was “extensively damaged” and it took firefighters three hours to cut Danyaal from the wreckage.

He was left with serious injuries after the crash, including a broken hip.

After he was taken to hospital and arrested, Mr Ahmed said Danyaal, who had been driving for around nine months and had the car for two days, questioned why he was being arrested and said the vehicle’s brakes had locked and his steering went a “bit dodgy”, but no mechanical defects with the vehicle’s braking or steering systems were found.

Mr Ahmed said the investigation into the collision found the speed of the vehicle may have played a part in the crash, paired with a lack of concentration or attention.

Andrew Dallas, mitigating, said Danyaal has survivor’s guilt and is devastated by the death of his friend and the impact on Adnaan’s family.

Mr Dallas said the collision had been caused by Danyaal’s “carelessness” and there had been a “misjudgement” of the road’s bend. He said there was no suggestion the crash had occurred because of competitive driving, but he was going over the speed limit on an empty, wide road at a quiet time of day.

He added that there was no suggestion Danyaal had been under the influence of drink or drugs and no suggestion he was using a phone at the time.

He said Danyaal, who has no previous convictions, had been assessed as having a low risk of reoffending and said he was a “perfectly decent young man, developing a career for himself” prior to the crash.

Sentencing Danyaal to 10 months in a young offender’s institution and disqualifying him from driving for two years, extended by five months, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC said the 19-year-old was of “impeccable character”, like his friend Adnaan, and they were “salt of the earth boys” who were the pride and joy of their families, but he had to eject the possibility of a community order or suspended sentence.

He said: “You simply lost all control.

“The consequence was the death of your friend.”