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Article: Crash escape driver tragedy ; Died of blood clot three weeks later
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- June 9, 2000
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A MOTORIST who thought he had walked away from a car smash
uninjured died three weeks later from a blood clot on the brain
which was probably caused by the accident, a Birmingham inquest
heard.
Ronald Davidson, aged 60, went to hospital nearly a month after
the crash for a check-up when he started to experience unexplained
blackouts, dizzy spells and headaches, the hearing was told
yesterday.
Mr Davidson, from Albion Road, Handsworth, died in City Hospital
the day after he was admitted last October.
Pathologist Dr Martin Carey told the inquest that the cause of
death was a blood clot on the brain which was partly due to a blow
to the neck.
He said that Mr Davidson's headaches and dizzy ...