Coroner's Finding: Hardie, Nathan John
Deceased
Nathan John Hardie
Demographics
41y, male
Date of death
2021-05-25
Finding date
2023-04-14
Cause of death
Multiple injuries to head, trunk and limb sustained in motorised bicycle collision with parked truck
AI-generated summary
Nathan John Hardie, aged 41, died from multiple injuries sustained in a motorised bicycle collision with a parked truck on 25 May 2021, five days after the accident on 30 April 2021. He was riding an unregistered, unroadworthy motorised bicycle (with 900W engine, 4.5 times the legal limit) on the wrong side of the road at approximately 60 km/h in darkness without lights. Recent amphetamine and cannabis use was detected. He swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle and struck the rear of a parked Freightliner trailer, sustaining severe head, trunk and limb injuries requiring neurosurgery, laparotomy and orthopaedic surgery. The coroner found the death was entirely attributable to Mr Hardie's choices: riding an unregistered and unroadworthy vehicle, riding on the wrong side of the road, riding after drug use, and riding without lights in darkness. No clinical or systemic failures were identified.
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Drugs involved
Clinical conditions
Contributing factors
- Recent amphetamine and cannabis use
- Riding unregistered motor vehicle on public road
- Riding unroadworthy motor vehicle
- Riding on wrong side of road
- Riding without lights in darkness
- High speed riding (approximately 60 km/h)
- Severe traumatic brain injury with intraparenchymal haemorrhages
- Ruptured spleen
- Shoulder and scapula fracture
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