'Don't let me die': Wife's last words to husband after being impaled by tree branch
A wife has pleaded with her husband to not let her die after a tree branch, which fell on their car, impaled her, an inquest has heard.
The Mirror reports, Elaine Davison suffered fatal injuries after a four-metre branch crashed through the window of the car she was travelling in with her husband in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in November 2010.
Her husband, Edward, has told an inquest into her death she pleaded for him to keep her alive in her final words.
“Don’t let me die, will you,” she said.
“’No, I won’t’,” he replied.
The couple were married for 30 years and Mr Davison said the conversation with his dying wife was "one of the hardest things".
“It’s the first time I’ve ever had to lie to her and I can’t take it back,” he said.
The inquest heard the couple had visited their daughter at Pinderfields Hospital before setting off to return home to Pontrefact.
Mr Davison said he could see small tree branches on the road as he drove along in the lead up to his wife’s death.
Coroner David Hinchcliff said the wind had “blown the car along” and the conditions had made Mrs Davison nervous.
Mr Davison told the inquest he heard a “banging and crashing sound” as the tree branch crashed in front of the car.
The inquest heard the windscreen had collapsed and something wood-like had pressed against Mrs Davison’s stomach through a hole in the glass before Mr Davison went into a blind panic.
Mr Davison tried to break branches off his wife but she was pronounced dead after she was rushed to hospital.
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West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service watch commander Michael Ferries, who attended the scene following the accident, said the weather conditions were the worst he’d experienced.
The inquest heard Mr Davison had given a negative breath test and there was no evidence he had been speeding and no problems with the road surface.
Mr Hinchcliff told the inquest there was no way Mr Davison would have been able to avoid impact with the branch.
The inquest at Wakefield Coronor’s Court was adjourned until Tuesday.
