An inquest has this week been held into the death of a Rooksbridge man who died after an accident.
Michael Thornton died when the vehicle he was travelling in left the road and ended up in a water-filled rhyne in Pill Road, Rooksbridge.
Coroner Michael Rose told the inquest: “The deceased was a passenger in a motor vehicle which was being driven on a single carriageway when it left the road and overturned into a water-filled rhyne at the side of the road. The deceased was pulled from the vehicle and, despite efforts to resuscitate him, he died at the scene.”
The cornoner recorded a verdict of accidental death.
Police were called to reports of the Land Rover Discovery on its roof in a rhyne, off Pill Road, at about 1.40am on November 13th last year.
Mr Thornton, an agricultural worker from the East Brent area, was one of three men in the vehicle.
