Aaron Antony Lauder · Prevention of Future Deaths report

On 27/1/21, I concluded an inquest into the death of Aaron Antony Lauder, 38, who died in a road traffic collision on the A30 near Higher Drift Farm, Penzance.
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The medical cause of death was recorded as:
1a) Displaced Basal Skull Fracture Traversing Middle Cranial Fossa Vault with Underlying Traumatic Brain Injury Cerebral Oedema; Bilateral Rib Fractures Complicated by Flail Segment, Pneumothorax and Multiple Pulmonary Lacerations
1b) Blunt Force Head and Chest Trauma
1c) Motor vehicle collision
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I recorded a Conclusion of Road Traffic Collision.

Mr Lauder was riding his Kawasaki motorbike along the A30 in an easterly direction from St Buryan towards Penzance. At the scene of the collision, a John Deere tractor was turning right in a westerly direction across Mr Lauder’s path. The national speed limit of 60mph is in force at the location. The Collision Investigator recorded that there was a ‘distinct lack of view to the right especially given the speed limit’ available to the tractor driver. The view was similarly restricted for Mr Lauder.

I concluded that the prime cause of the collision was the lack of view available to either driver at the accident locus.