The cause of a car accident that killed a former Derbyshire councilor will never be known.
Roy Bickerton lost his life and another passenger in the car was also killed when it hit a truck head-on, an investigation heard.
The Skoda driver Arthur Hiddleston, who was injured in the accident, told the investigation that he remembered driving past a small garage on his right and then “remembered nothing else until he was at the.” Impact woke up “.
The truck driver also passed his accident report on to assistant coroner Matt Kewley.
He described how he braked immediately when the Skoda approached head-on, then continued to sound the horn, but the driver did not react.
Mr. Hiddleston was described by the trucker as “frozen with no expression”.
Another testimony told the investigation how they saw the Skoda drive towards the truck and saw “no brake lights” from the vehicle.
The car with Mr Bickerton, 86, was driving on the A6, Buxton Road near New Mills when the accident occurred in a vehicle in 2019.
Another passenger, Alan Frater, 82, also lost his life, heard from Chesterfield Coroners Court.
An investigation into the nature of the accident by Derbyshire Police revealed two possible explanations for the irregular driving, either the driver falling asleep or a medical episode.
A cardiac report failed to find irrefutable evidence that Mr Hiddleston had a medical episode that caused the vehicle to turn on the wrong side of the single lane.
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Mr. Hiddleston also has no experience of falling asleep at the wheel or medical episodes while driving.
This led Assistant Coroner Kewley to conclude that there was insufficient evidence to provide a conclusive reason for the cause of the crash.
The investigation found that both men had died in a traffic accident.
Mr Bickerton, a former Alderman for High Peak Borough Council and New Mills Town Council, was found to have died in the impact and was pronounced dead on the scene.
Mr. Frater sustained injuries in the accident that caused significant physiological stress, which resulted in his medical cause of death being classified as ischemic heart disease due to chest injuries. He was taken to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, where he later died.
In a statement from Mr. Bickerton’s family at the time of the incident, he was described as “a really good man”.
The assistant coroner offered his condolences to the family and apologized for the fact that it took two years to close the cases.
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