Six-month-old died after pram hit by car - inquest

Sophia Kelemen lies on a changing mat. She is wearing a peach coloured outfit with ruffles and has a dummy in her mouth. A woman's hands can be seen adjusting her outfit.
Baby Sophia Kelemen was airlifted to hospital in Cardiff after the crash in Tenby [Family handout]

A six-month-old girl died from a head injury after a car hit her pram in a multi-storey car park, an inquest opening has heard.

Sophia Kelemen, from Leigh, Greater Manchester, was airlifted to University Hospital Wales in Cardiff after the crash in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, on 2 January but died the next day.

The incident happened on the ground floor of the car park in the seaside town on the last day of a family holiday.

Dyfed-Powys Police is continuing to investigate the incident and assistant coroner Gareth Lewis adjourned the inquest to a later date.

He also extended his "sincere condolences" to the family.

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Sophia's cause of death was noted as intracranial haemorrhage and road traffic collision.

Baby Sophia Kelemen is wearing a white blouse/dress with embroidered detailing and a green waistcoat with red flowers and red embroidered edging. She is wearing a white ruffled hairband.
Sophia Kelemen died the day after being taken to hospital [Family handout]

Coroner's Officer for Pembrokeshire, PC Carrie Sheridan, said the ambulance service was called at 16:04 GMT about a collision between a car and a child's pram.

Flaviu Naghi, 33, from Wigan, is due to appear at Swansea Crown Court on 7 February charged with causing death by dangerous driving and driving without a licence and without insurance.

Police said Mr Naghi was also arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and drug-driving and was remanded in custody until his next court hearing.

Alex Keleman with baby Sophia pictured with the beach in Tenby in the background. He has short dark hair and a shirt beard and she is wearing a fluffy pink jacket and pink hat
Dad Alex Kelemen has said his daughter's death was like "a horror movie" [Alex Keleman]

Sophia's father Alex Keleman, 27, has said his family had been left "devastated" by her death and described his experience as being like "a horror movie".

The family had taken some final holiday photographs and had packed their bags and were preparing to head home when the incident happened.

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Now, he and his wife Betty, 26, are navigating their grief and trying to help their five-year-old son, Lucas, understand that he will never see Sophia again.

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