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Guildford family join national campaign to make multi-storey car parks safer after death of 17-year-old son

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A family from Guildford, whose 17-year-old son died after falling from a multi-storey car park (MSCP) in the town, are the latest to join the national campaign to make them safer, as reported in Surrey World.

Tom Combeer, fell from the 10th floor of the York Road MSCP in the early hours of 8th March last year. There have been at least 4 deaths from York Road and Leapale Road MSCPs in Guildford since 2019.

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Families call on Government to back Multi-Storey Car Parks (Safety) Bill on its return to Parliament

Families campaigning to make Multi-Storey Car Parks (MSCP) safer have welcomed the return of the Bill after it was reintroduced to Parliament last month by Liverpool Garston MP Maria Eagle as reported in The Liverpool Echo, and the Manchester Evening News.

The Multi-Storey Car Parks (Safety) Bill, known as Gabe’s Law, was originally introduced in the House of Commons in 2023 and again in 2025, but ran out of parliamentary time to be passed.

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Westminster meeting for Gabe’s Law campaigner

Johnny Santer meets Building Safety Minister, Samantha Dixon MBE MP (centre) with his MP, Maria Eagle (far left)

As part of Boxed Off’s pro-bono work to help a Liverpool family change the law to make multi-storey car parks safer, after 15-year old Gabe Santer fell to his death in 2020, we met the new Minister for Building Safety in November along with Gabe’s dad Johnny and the family’s MP, Maria Eagle.

The Multi-Storey Car Parks (Safety Bill) was introduced in 2023 by Maria Eagle MP and reintroduced in 2025 by Peter Dowd MP. The law, to be known as Gabe’s Law,  would see the minimum legal height of guarding at multi-storey car parks increase from 1.1m to 2.7m.

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