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Coroner's Finding: Roberts-Burton, Blaze Christian

Deceased

Blaze Christian Roberts-Burton

Demographics

31y, male

Date of death

2015-05-10

Finding date

2017-04-20

Cause of death

Multiple blunt traumatic injuries sustained from being run over by a truck

AI-generated summary

A 31-year-old man died after being struck by a truck while lying on a roadway in a state of severe intoxication. He had consumed alcohol (blood alcohol 0.250-0.268%) combined with toxic levels of diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and methylamphetamine. After leaving a gymnasium around 3am, he became unconscious or deeply sedated and lay across the centre of Lampton Avenue in poorly lit conditions. A taxi driver avoided him, but a bread delivery truck struck him approximately two minutes later. The coroner found no clinical failures or preventable errors by either driver. The death resulted from the combined depressant effects of multiple substances causing profound sedation and utter indifference to survival risks.

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Contributing factors

  • High blood alcohol concentration (0.250-0.268%)
  • Toxic levels of benzodiazepines (diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam)
  • Methylamphetamine intoxication
  • Combined depressant effect of multiple substances causing sedation
  • Unconscious or deeply sedated state on roadway
  • Poor lighting conditions on roadway
  • Lying in centre of roadway in dark conditions
  • Parole breach involving substance use
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