The boy was crushed when the BMW plunged from the nearby car park

Maximillian Holden Young, two, was killed on Saturday when a BMW plunged from a car park above Yaverland Beach on the Isle of Wight.

Dr Alan Anscombe, a Home Office forensic pathologist, said the boy's injuries were "non-survivable".

The crash was the second such incident in a year on the Isle of Wight.

'Huge response'

It has since been claimed that the death could have been prevented if lessons had been learned from the previous tragedy in nearby Shanklin in which Professor Harvey Flower was killed.

Officers from Hampshire Constabulary's road death investigation team returned to the scene of the latest accident to carry out further inquiries on Tuesday.

An examination of the BMW was due to be carried out on Wednesday to see if it had any mechanical defects.

Hundreds of leaflets were distributed to hotels and businesses in the area in an attempt to find more witnesses.

Sgt Andy Timms, who is leading the investigation, said: "We've had a huge response so far from people who witnessed the car going over the parapet.

Multiple injuries

"It's vital that we now establish what happened before that."

The driver of the BMW, a 44-year-old local man, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.

A breath test on the driver was negative and he was freed on police bail until September.

The boy's 42-year-old father was also trapped under the car and is being treated at a London hospital for multiple injuries, the most serious of which is a broken pelvis.

Harvey Flower, 58, an academic from Beckenham, Kent, died on 16 August last year when a car fell on to him as he was reading on the beach at Shanklin.