Father and son, 4, killed after high-powered Subaru crashes into tree
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:37 PM on 18th February 2010
A father and his four-year-old son died when their high-powered car careered off a road and crashed into a tree.
The bodies of Tony Eldridge and his son Bradley and were found by a policeman on patrol who came across the wreckage.
Investigators are not sure how long they had been lying there but both the 36-year-old driver and his son were declared dead at the scene.
They were travelling in a Subaru Impreza from the village of Bucknall in Oxfordshire towards Bicester at around 8.15pm last night when the car came off a 60mph stretch of road.
Four-year-old Bradley Eldridge who was found dead alongside his father Tony after the car they were travelling in came off a road and crashed into a tree
Floral tributes are left at the crash scene. One from Bradley's grandparents read: 'To our son and grandson, you will always be in our hearts, love you loads, Mum and Dad xxxxxxxxxxx'
Floral tributes were laid at the crash scene today as officers launched an investigation into how the collision happened.
The tree which the car hit had branches snapped off up to half way up the trunk.
Relative and friends left a number of touching floral tributes under the tree.
One from Bradley's grandparents read: "To our son and grandson, you will always be in our hearts, love you loads, Mum and Dad xxxxxxxxxxx"
A Thames Valley spokesman said: 'A police officer came across the vehicle while out on patrol.
'It was a significant impact and he immediately raised the alarm before going to the aid of the occupants.
'It is unclear at this stage when the accident happened but it is not believed to have been long before it was found.'
A spokesman for the South Central Ambulance Service said that controllers sent a rapid response ambulance to the scene.
'Sadly, there was nothing that the crews could do,' he said.
'An adult male and a four-year-old child were declared dead at the scene and our crew was stood down.'
Today a specially-trained family liaison officer was breaking the news to family and friends of the pair who were from Bicester.
Post-mortem examinations were expected to take place in the next few days before an inquest is opened and adjourned into the deaths.
The spokesman for Thames Valley Police appealed for any witnesses to the collision to come forward.
File photo of a vehicle similar to the one involved in the collision.
Two people have been killed as the result of a collision involving a vehicle crashing into a tree in Oxfordshire, England.  The two occupants of the Subaru Impreza were four-year-old Bradley Eldridge and his father, 36-year-old Tony Eldridge, who was driving the vehicle.  Both were thought to be from the village of Bicester.

The vehicle was travelling between the Oxfordshire villages of Bicester and Bucknell at around 20:15 GMT on Wednesday when it departed from the road and crashed into a tree. Both occupents of the car were declared dead at the scene of the collision.

A rapid response ambulance had been directed to the crash site, however, a spokesperson for the South Central Ambulance Service stated that "sadly, there was nothing that the crews could do." The spokesperson also commented that "an adult male and a four-year-old child were declared dead at the scene and our crew was stood down."

A spokesperson for the Thames Valley Police was quoted as saying: "A police officer came across the vehicle while out on patrol. It was a significant impact and he immediately raised the alarm before going to the aid of the occupants. It is unclear at this stage when the accident happened but it is not believed to have been long before it was found."