Jade Rice was 17 when she died along with Danny Atkinson, also 17, in Bradley Road, Huddersfield, on January 29, 2006.

The teenagers were in the care of a halfway house at Sherwood Avenue, Bradley, where Mohammed Tanwir, then 22, worked.

He was driving the Toyota car which hit a tree but has never said why the teenagers were in his car.

In 2006 Mr Tanwir, of Shipley, was cleared at Bradford Crown Court of causing death by dangerous driving and this week Huddersfield magistrates dismissed a charge of leaving the scene of an accident.

Jade's mum, Elaine Noble, 49, and stepdad Barry Noble, 45, of Savile Park, Halifax, said they felt badly let down by the authorities and relatives of Huddersfield teenager Danny felt the same.

Jade had only spent a few days in the hostel in between living at home while she waited for a flat in Halifax and she was due to start a hairdressing course at Calderdale College.

"I want to know why my daughter was in that car," said Mrs Noble.

"I feel let down by everyone. Drained. And it is like it never happened. I still feel she will walk through the door because we have not had any answers.

"Everyone I put faith in has let me down – how can two people be killed and questions be left unanswered.

"All I have been left with is my imagination and believe me you do not want to know where that takes me.

"Now I just wish I was dead."

Mr Noble said Mr Tanwir had showed the family no remose.

"The law has allowed a situation where two people have died without an explanation," he said.

"We have been failed by the legal system."

Mr Noble said the fight for answers would continue and an appeal to the Parliamen-tary Ombudsman was a possibility as was action against those responsible for the care of teenagers at the halfway house.

And he hoped the coroner would raise issues when the inquest into Jade's death was finally held.

She had a twin brother Ian, now 19, older brother Michael Rolls, 23, and sister Zoe Rolls, 25.

brian.coates@halifaxcourier.co.uk