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Former rector could have fallen asleep at the wheel, death crash inquest hears


A FORMER rector who died in a head-on crash on the A59 could have fallen asleep at the wheel or suffered from a sudden illness before veering on to the wrong side of the road, an inquest heard this


week. But the driver’s action


would have to remain a matter of speculation, said Blackburn, Hyndbum and Ribble Valley District Coroner Mr Andre Rebello. He recorded a verdict of


. The inquest, held a t Blackburn Town Hall on Tuesday, heard that after the impact, Mr Clark’s Volvo spun back on itself and ended up on its own side of the road, extensively damaged. Home Office pathologist


accidental death on Mr Hugh Lockhart Clark (53), who became a gardener after resigning as rector of St James's • Church, Clitheroe, in 1992. Mr Rebello said that Mr


Dr William Lawler told Mr Clark’s three grown-up children, and other rela­ tives and friends who attended the hearing,that his injuries were so exten­ sive that he would have lost consciousness instantly and died moments later with­ out suffering pain. He said the injuries includ­


pointed out tha t a police officer, who had found no mechanical cause for the accident, had suggested that Mr Clark could have fallen asleep at the wheel, • after the exertion of gar­ dening outside in the cold and then getting into a warm car. Dr Lawler said that this


The coroner at this stage


could be just as likely an explanation for Mr Clark’s


action. In his summing up, Mr


Clark had died at the scene of the crash from multiple


injuries. The accident happened


400 yards on the Clitheroe side of the Bramley Meade roundabout on November 18th last year, at 4-35 p.m., when Mr Clark’s Volvo car veered over on to the wrong side of the road in the face of oncoming traffic. He collided first with the


POPULAR Sabden licensees Alf and Laura Campbell have decided to call “time” at the White Hart


Inn. The couple will be pulling their last pints


on October 22nd, but have not decided


what their next venture will be. They have been a t the White Hart for three years, coming from the Bay Horse at Fence. Now they plan to return to Alf’s home town of Darwen for a break until after Christmas.


The couple have two sons, Stuart and Gavin.


ed a fractured skull, spon­ taneous brain haemor­ rhage, contusions to the lungs and external damage to the heart. There was nothing to indi­ cate that there had been a


heart attack or stroke or any type of pre-existing n atural disease which would have contributed to his death. Tests also showed there had been no substance of any relevance in his blood, and there was no alcohol present. Dr Lawler said that he had


rear offside of an on-com­ ing Ford Transit van, which pulled over on to a grass verge in a bid to avoid an impact, and then head- on with an articulated goods vehicle.


learned that Mr Clark had complained of palpitations to a doctor. However, there was no anatomical disease to confirm this — yet nei­ ther was he in a position to refute there had been heart


palpitations of any kind.


Nine years’ jail for serial robber who used replica gun to steal


A SERIAL robber armed with a replica Jiandgun got the biggest haul of a 12-raid spree :from the Halifax Build­ ing Society office in


:Whalley, a court heard. ■'Terror was caused in the var­ ious offices visited by Derek vWormald (34), Brigsteer, ■


‘near Kendal. In each case he ^produced a replica revolver /capable of firing only blanks, ?the judge was told. t Altogether he stole £35,000, some ££19,500 of it from Whalley. He Iwas eventually arrested after the


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vision programme “Crimewatch”. At Preston Crown Court, Judge


Reginald Lockett sentenced Wormald to nine years in prison and told him: “I t seems quite clear to me that not only did you target these various places, but you made some preparation. The seriousness is aggravated by the fact that you had this replica gun. “There is no doubt th a t you


caused terror to these people. I have no doubt that when this gun was shown to them, they feared the worst.” Wormald pleaded guilty to seven


charges of robbery and asked for five others to he taken into consid­


eration.- After the case Det. Insp. Terry


Richardson said it was an excellent example of the way the police and the media could liaise to bring


criminals to justice. The police had been begining to


compile evidence against Wonnald a n d "Crimewatch” and other pub­


licity had pulled everything


together. The court heard that the offences


took place over a period of nine months. Two Woolwich Building


Society offices in East Anglia were Wormald’s first targets. Then he raided other societies in North Wales and two each in Cumbria and North Yorkshire. The other five offences were all in


Lancashire, with the last one at Croston, near Chorley, in July. Some weeks later, Wormald was arrested a t a holiday cottage in Cumbria following a joint opera­ tion between the Lancashire and Cumbria forces. Mr Keith Thomas (defending)


said that his client had never for­ given the Woolwich Building Soci­ ety after i t had repossessed his home. He realised the terror that he had caused staff a t branches, but conceded he had gained a little pleasure from the Woolwich soci­ ety offences.


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Rebello said th a t he accepted th a t there were no n atural diseases or mechanical reason for the accident. Yet there was no evidence th a t Mr Clark


had been asleep a t the wheel or tha t he had suf- _ fered from a sudden illness, but then again there was no evidence to say either of these things ,had not occurred. He accepted the police officer’s attempt to find a cause for what seemed inexplicable action, hut it could only he viewed as speculative. Mr Clark’s family was rep­


resented at the hearing by his brother, Mr Thomas Hamilton Clark, of Inner­ leithen, Peebleshire. Earlier the coroner had


pointed out th a t Mr Clark’s wife, Melanie, was


in hospital and too ill to attend the hearing.


AN accidental death verdict on former rector M r Hugh Lockarf Clark .


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