Charity volunteers on a pilgrimage to France have denied that negligence played a part in the death of a disabled boy in their care.
Christopher Brown, 12, whose family are from Swansea and now live in Essex, died from multiple injuries after the accident near Lourdes in April 2001.
The Swansea inquest heard on Thursday his carer took a break and handed over charge of him just before the accident.
Christopher died after he was crushed by a reversing passenger coach.
Warwickshire-based charity The Handicapped Children's Pilgrimage Trust organised the week-long trip, centring on a hostel with large grounds that it owned outside Christian pilgrimage centre Lourdes.
Christopher lost his life during a brief moment when his primary carer, Michael Stonestreet, passed him on to team leader John Fowley while he visited the toilet, the inquest heard.
"Our radar should have been more alert to the danger"
Christopher, who had a rare generic condition which meant he had no sense of danger, had apparently wandered alone and unseen to a cramped parking bay adjoining the hostel, despite his inability to walk far unaided.
The inquest was told the rest of the group had made its way down a grass embankment to a field within the grounds of the hostel to play a game of football.
Father Dominic Howarth, who was chaplain to the small group of 14 adults and nine children, said hostel Hosannah House was seen as a safe area.
He said all children in the group were under constant one-to-one supervision when in the busy town of Lourdes, but that Hosanna House was an "oasis of peace".
He said: "Moving from one part of Hosannah House to another was like moving from your house to your garden. That is not an explanation and it is not a justification."
'Lottery'
Christopher's father Michael Brown said: "It is like having a garden with a highway going through it and traffic moving up and down."
Father Howarth answered: "I can see how it looks like that, but that was not really the case."
He added: "Our radar should have been more alert to the danger."
Father Howarth agreed with other witnesses who gave evidence on Thursday that when the group were out together volunteers took care of the children as a group.
Mr Brown commented: "What we are hearing is that once you got out into the open the one-to-one care disappeared and it was something of a lottery."
Father Howarth said: "I think to describe it as something of a lottery is unfair."
Asked by Mr Brown why he had said in a police statement that he felt nobody was negligent in the death of his son, the priest said he had been answering a direct question.
An emotional Father Howarth, who had been still training for the priesthood at the time of the tragedy, said: "It was an accident."
No action
Other volunteers with the charity who gave evidence said they did not feel negligence played a part in Christopher's death.
Previously, the inquest has heard the French driver of the coach had been cleared of any blame following an investigation by police in France.
Both Mr Fowley and Mr Stonestreet were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter through gross negligence by Essex police, two-and-a-half years after the tragedy.
The Crown Prosecution Service eventually decided to take no action in either case.
The inquest will conclude on Friday.
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