Friday 28 June 2013

"No doubt at all about what really killed him then" suggests Mail headline

Firefighter drowned during training exercise at Olympic white water rafting venue moments after he ate a McDonald's breakfast meal

  • Alan Soards, 38, got into trouble in the water and vomited up his breakfast
  • Lowestoft firefighter was on training day at Lee Valley White Water Centre
  • Inquest heard Mr Soards vomited his breakfast while being given CPR
  • Colleague had joked with him earlier that he would 'see his breakfast later'
  • Hertfordshire coroner records cardiac respiratory failure as cause of death

Tragic accident: Alan Soards, 38, died after inhaling his own vomit during a water rescue course in east London NEW Suffolk firefighter Alan Soards, 38, got into trouble during a training day at the Lee Valley White Water Centre in Waltham Cross and died after inhaling his own vomit, an inquest heard.

2 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

I blame Mr Blobby, like that little kid he killed at a McD's twenty years ago.

Hopper said...

Perhaps we should give journo Harriet Arkell CPR and see whether she vomits up her breakfast?

Sure, the trauma of chest compression has a fair chance of inducing cardiac arrest, but surely that's a chance we're willing to take in pursuit of a scientific question?