Coroner's Finding: Brown, Elizabeth Mary
Deceased
Elizabeth Mary Brown
Demographics
80y, female
Date of death
2021-09-29
Finding date
2022-07-22
Cause of death
Multiple injuries sustained in motor vehicle crash
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Elizabeth Mary Brown, aged 80, died from multiple injuries sustained in a motor vehicle crash on 13 September 2021 in Strahan, Tasmania. She failed to give way at an intersection while driving an unfamiliar manual transmission vehicle she had owned for only one month, colliding with another vehicle before striking a power pole. She was not wearing a seatbelt. She sustained head injury and fractured femur, underwent surgery, but her condition deteriorated and she died 16 days later on palliative care. The coroner found the crash resulted from driving error—lack of attention combined with difficulty operating the manual transmission—rather than mechanical failure, alcohol impairment, or medical event. Local police had appropriately monitored her driving competence.
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Procedures
Contributing factors
- Driving error—failure to give way at intersection
- Lack of adequate attention to driving
- Difficulty operating unfamiliar manual transmission vehicle
- Inexperience with newly acquired vehicle (owned approximately one month)
- Not wearing seatbelt
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