The deaths of two motorists who collided on an icy road just one hour after another car crashed in the same blackspot is being investigated again in a joint inquest.

Carl Bird, from High Wycombe, and Malcolm Tindall, from Aylesbury, were killed in a dramatic crash after their cars were involved in a full-frontal collision on an icy blackspot in the early hours of the morning on March 4, 2014.

Emergency services rushed to the scene to reports that a Peugeot driven by Malcolm Tindall was involved in a smash with a Vauxhall Astra carrying 29-year-old Carl Bird and passenger Melanie Parker.

While the two men died shortly after the collision, Miss Parker was rushed to hospital with serious injuries and narrowly survived the horrific crash, which happened on the A413 near Mapridge Cottage between Wendover and Great Missenden.

The inquest, which started today, heard that a sheet of ice which covered large parts of the road was likely to have contributed to the collision, as it had caused trouble for local residents for six to seven weeks.

A resident at the nursing home close to the crash scene, Graham Williamson, had complained to the local water company about the wet patch after discovering it was being caused by a leak at a nearby building site at Mapridge Cottage, the inquest heard.

He said: "The water was mainly on the eastbound carriageway but had flowed over to the westbound carriageway as well.

"It had spread across the road and had a coverage which was noticeable.

"I expected that the water near the junction would be freezing over."

Mr Williamson said he had called Affinity Water about the problem on February 26, but that they had already received a call about the problem and had traced it back to a residential house by the road which was "pumping water from its cellar" due to building works.

Mr Williamson said: "I feel very angry about what has happened. I complained to the water company.

"They should have foreseen that this was going to be a problem."

Other local residents dubbed the area a "blackspot" due to the lack of visibility on the stretch of road, and said the leak had been clearly visible between Mapridge Cottage and Woodlands Park residential home for six to seven weeks.

Commuter David Cleary said he had passed by a number of ambulances near the nursing home on his way to work in the morning, a route he had been taking for the past 26 years.

He said: "It is quite a blackspot on this stretch because you can't see the other lane clearly."

Mr Cleary added that while the leak had been present for "six or seven weeks, maybe more", the road had been completely dry when he returned from work that day.

Giving evidence at the inquest, house owner Raymond Hunter said the five feet of water which filled their newly built basement in March 2014 had appeared as a result of rising ground level water which poured in through their waste pipes after months of heavy rain.

He said: "Why would I pump it out? It would be like pumping out water from the Thames because it just kept on coming in."

When asked why he didn't take action to stop the water flowing onto the road, Mr Hunter said: "I have never done nothing [sic] about it, no.

"It is rain water. It is not from me, it is not from anything that I have done wrong."

His wife, Leaza Hunter, said: "I remember a man arriving from the water company.

"He thought there had been a mains leak, but there was not actually a mains pipe that we were aware of.

"The whole of the town was flooding. We decided it was ground water and there was nothing we could do about it."

Both families of the deceased had provided written statements about their loved ones which would be read out at the inquest at a later date, but while family members of Mr Bird were present for the first day, relatives of Mr Tindall, 64, were not expected to attend.

Crispin Butler, the senior coroner for Buckinghamshire, said that the collision shortly before 6am on the icy road had taken place just over an hour after "a non-fatal collision" took place on the same stretch of road.

He added: "These two gentlemen were not known to each other. "The incident which led to the deaths of Carl Bird and Malcolm Tindall took place on the A413 between Wendover and Great Missenden, Bucks around the area where a private driveway serving Mapridge Cottage and Woodlands Park Residential Home.

"We will hear personal details and personal statements from the Bird family and the Tindall family."

The inquest continues and is expected to be concluded by November 17.