Paramedic killed in motorbike training crash

A paramedic died on a North Wales Police motorcycle refresher course when his bike collided with a lorry, an inquest has heard.

Mark Pell, 51, from Essex, was with a colleague from the London Ambulance Service when they were involved in a five-vehicle crash on the A5 near Pentrefoelas in Conwy on 7 April 2022.

The inquest at the coroner’s court in Ruthin heard Mr Pell was negotiating a sweeping left hand bend when, for unknown reasons, his bike crossed the solid white safety line into the path of an oncoming HGV.

He suffered a brain injury^[1] after being thrown from his bike in a death the coroner concluded was as a result of a road traffic collision.

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1. ^{^} a brain injury (www.bbc.com)