A BUSINESSMAN took an overdose of pain killers before the 4x4 he was driving along the A614 crashed head on into an articulated lorry, an inquest has heard.
Paul Alan James Topsham, 44, of Main Street, Haisthorpe, had 60 times the normal dose of codeine in his blood stream, when he was involved in a collision with a 44 tonne HGV near Middleton-on-the-Wolds on October 3 last year.
Toxicology tests also showed that Mr Topham, who had been suffering from depression, also had a potentially fatal amount of paracetamol in his body, taken around two hours prior to the crash.
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