A CORONER overseeing the inquest into the demise of Co Down businessman Denis Lynn has urged individuals utilizing quad bikes and motorbikes to make themselves conscious of well being and security pointers.
Anne-Louise Toal stated there was little that medical intervention may have completed to avoid wasting the lifetime of Mr Lynn, who died following a quad bike accident on his land at Killyleagh Highway, Downpatrick, on Could 2 final yr.
The 63-year-old Finnebrogue Artisan founder and chairman and father-of-four was an skilled quad bike rider, the inquest heard.
He died as the results of crush accidents after his bike tipped over on high of him when attempting to navigate down a mound of unfastened soil in a discipline close to his dwelling.
The inquest was advised how Mr Lynn had been out quad driving along with his daughter Ciara on the time of the accident.
“I hope this inquest shines a lightweight on the hazards of quad bike driving,” the coroner stated.
“This freak accident underscores the hazards, even for knowledgeable riders.
“Sadly that is the second of 4 inquests into quad bike accidents I'm coping with, two alone this week,” she added.
“There have been six others within the final 18 months, plus the demise of a kid in a scrambler bike accident.
”I'd urge all these contemplating driving a quad to make sure they learn the recommendation given by the Well being and Security Government on their web site.”
The inquest heard from Mr Lynn’s spouse, Christine, who stated her husband had been driving quad bikes for greater than 30 years.
She stated her husband had all the time been proficient with quad bikes.
“Even earlier than I met him he had a love for motorbikes and quad bikes, primarily sporting however, later, farm quads.
“He loved being out within the woods and paths and was very skilled, all the time acutely aware about carrying a helmet,” she added.
“The corporate has been constructing a brand new manufacturing unit,” she continued. “The unfastened soil and landfill had been coming to the sphere, to later be levelled.
“He was on his means dwelling by way of the sphere that evening. It wasn’t a selected observe for quads.
“The soil was unfastened, contemporary, however he had been in that space earlier than. He all the time worse a helmet. He was superb about that and it was fairly a brand new bike.”
Mr Lynn’s daughter Ciara stated she had been out driving along with her father for round an hour earlier than the accident occurred.
She described how she had been nervous about taking place the slope of unfastened soil however that her father had led the best way.
She described how she watched because the rear left wheel had started to elevate earlier than the bike tipped over, touchdown on Mr Lynn as he descended the slope at an angle.
Ciara stated the quad bike had landed on her father, and she or he had pushed it off his legs as he lay in a restoration place, however that he was making groaning noises and really rapidly started sweating loads.
Concluding her findings, coroner Anne-Louise Toal stated it was most unlikely that even speedy surgical intervention may have saved Mr Lynn’s life, after pathologist Dr Marjorie Turner, who carried out a autopsy examination, stated he had suffered catastrophic inner accidents, together with breaks to just about all of his ribs, tears to each lungs and a tear to aorta — the principle blood vessel within the physique.
“There was giant blood quantity in Mr Lynn’s chest cavity, completely in line with crushing from a quad bike,” Dr Turner acknowledged.
Emergency providers and police had been rapidly in attendance, however Mr Lynn was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
Following his demise, Mr Lynn was hailed as “an innovator and visionary who leaves behind a rare checklist of achievements”.
His giant meals manufacturing agency, based mostly outdoors Downpatrick, employs round 1,000 individuals throughout 4 websites in Co Down and provides a number of main UK supermarkets.
He's survived by spouse Christine, daughters Kerry, Clare, Tara and Ciara and his wider household circle.