A GRANDFATHER who been drinking alcohol and taking cocaine was driving at 92mph when his car careered out of control and ploughed into an engineering factory.

Just seconds earlier Christopher Ttoffali's worried passengers had pleaded with him to slow down after he said: "I wonder what this baby can do."

But their pleas came too late and the red Hyundai Lantra mounted the kerb before crashing into Marben Engineering on Ferndown industrial estate.

The force of the impact caused the engine to end up on the secretary's chair and desk.

By sheer chance Christine Liley, who would normally have been working that day, had decided not to come into the office.

A Bournemouth inquest heard how Mr Ttoffali, 50, had been travelling at more than three times the speed limit when tragedy struck on April 22.

The mobile vehicle repair specialist's widow Irene from Cherry Grove, Ferndown, said the father-of-two had been proud of his driving skills and passed an advanced test.

She wasn't sure how much her husband had drank during their niece's 21st birthday celebrations at a Ferndown restaurant.

But Mr Ttoffali had been "very happy and sociable" during the afternoon party. The couple left in separate vehicles.

Mrs Ttoffali added: "We were all sitting in the garden when I received a phone call saying Chris had been involved in a car crash."

Mr Ttoffali died later that evening at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

When asked by coroner Sheriff Payne about a glass phial found in her husband's pocket containing cocaine, Mrs Ttoffali replied: "I don't know anything about it."

Mark Lorains, the front-seat passenger in the Lantra, said he wasn't sure what Mr Ttoffali had drank in the restaurant or later in a nearby pub.

"We were all quite merry. When we got half way through the industrial estate we were going too fast," he said.

"Chris said: I wonder what this baby can do' and I said: Slow down.' By then it was too late."

In a statement, Mr Ttoffali's son Baille, who was a rear-seat passenger, said they had been drinking before leaving home.

"Dad may have had another beer before the meal. We were eating and drinking from 1.30pm until 3.30pm. He may well have had a couple of glasses of wine.

"I didn't think Dad was drunk. He had drunk too much to be driving."

Baille described his father's driving as "fine" until they entered the industrial estate.

"I realised we were going too fast and said slow down.' I can't remember dad saying anything."

Blood tests showed that Mr Ttoffali, who died from a head injury, had consumed nearly one and a half times the legal drink-drive alcohol limit and recently taken cocaine and cannabis.

Crash investigator Christina Wales said no defects had been found on the Lantra, adding: "The vehicle was travelling at not less than 92 mph as it started negotiating a left-hand bend. I couldn't believe my calculations and had to check them."

Recording an accidental death verdict, Mr Payne said speed had caused the crash.

He added: "Mr Ttoffali had consumed alcohol and there was also cocaine and cannabis in his system which may have caused him to be slightly over-confident and reckless.

"Fortunately his two passengers survived."