Deceased
Oswyn Leigh Fitzgerald
Demographics
70y, male
Date of death
2017-03-19
Finding date
2018-02-23
Cause of death
blunt injuries of the head and neck sustained in a motor vehicle crash
AI-generated summary
A 70-year-old man with a history of ischaemic heart disease and prior coronary artery bypass surgery suffered a cardiac arrhythmia while driving a racing car at Baskerville Raceway. He lost consciousness, causing his vehicle to leave the track and crash into a tyre wall at 50-60 km/h. He sustained fatal blunt head and neck injuries with extensive subarachnoid haemorrhage. The coroner found the cardiac event was the precipitating cause, occurring in a man with significant underlying cardiac disease. The death was not preventable through medical or clinical intervention.
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