Tribute to Connah's Quay man killed in crash on Sealand Road, Deeside

Feb 25 2010 By Dave Goodban

Carl Sutton

THE family of Connah’s Quay man Carl Sutton, who died in a car crash on Sealand Road in Deeside at the weekend, have paid tribute to ‘a free spirit who lived for today’.

Mr Sutton was pronounced dead at the scene after the one-car smash on the A548 at 3.45am on Sunday, less than a week after 18-year-old Deeside College student Danny Evans died in a collision around 200 yards away.

The 26-year-old, who worked at the Vaauxhall plant in Ellesmere Port, was the youngest son of Graham and Myra Sutton. He lived at home with his mum and dad and older brothers Dale and Colin in Cheriton Close, Connah’s Quay.

Originally from the Blacon area of Chester, the family moved to Deeside in 1979, and Carl was educated at Connah’s Quay High School.

Carl, 26, had worked at Vauxhall for the past three years, and prior to that he worked in Scotts clothes shop in Chester.

The family tribute said: "He loved to listen to Michael Jackson, but his main interest was football and he was a keen Manchester United supporter.

"In his younger days he played for Hawarden Rangers as well as for Flintshire County, and then went onto the Wrexham and Chester academies.

"He did not have a large circle of friends but he did have a concentrated number which he stuck by."

His mother Myra described Mr Sutton him as ‘her baby’, while his father Graham called him ‘a free spirit who lived for today’.