An inquest jury has begun considering its findings into the death of a woman who was killed by an overhanging tree branch when she stuck her head out of the window of a moving high-speed train.
Bethan Roper, 28, suffered fatal head injuries while a passenger on the Great Western Railway (GWR) travelling at around 75mph.
Miss Roper was returning home to South Wales from a day out with friends Christmas shopping in Bath.
During five days of evidence, Avon Coroner’s Court heard Miss Roper and three friends had boarded the train at Bath Spa station on the evening of December 1 2018.
An inquest jury has begun considering its findings into the death of a woman who was killed by an overhanging tree branch when she stuck her head out of the window of a moving high-speed train.
Bethan Roper, 28, suffered fatal head injuries while a passenger on the Great Western Railway (GWR) travelling at around 75mph.
Miss Roper was returning home to South Wales from a day out with friends Christmas shopping in Bath.
During five days of evidence, Avon Coroner’s Court heard Miss Roper and three friends had boarded the train at Bath Spa station on the evening of December 1 2018.
By Argus Reporter
BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE Undated handout photo courtesy of Cardiff School of Journalism of Bethan Roper, 28, from Penarth, South Wales, who died from serious head injuries suffered on a train between Bath and Keynsham on December 1. Police believe her MORE regular inspections of trees along a stretch of railway line where a woman died after being struck by an overhanging branch as she stuck her head out of a train window may have prevented the tragedy, an inquest heard. Bethan Roper, 28, suffered fatal head injuries after being struck by a branch of an ash tree while a passenger on a Great Western Railway (GWR) service travelling at around 75mph.
Death of train passenger killed by branch was foreseeable , says tree expert
Bethan Roper, 28,had been on a day trip with friends when she died while leaning out of the window of a GWR train travelling at around 75mph
Bethan Roper died in 2018 (Image: Adrian Roper)
More regular inspections of trees along a stretch of railway line where a woman died after being struck by an overhanging branch as she stuck her head out of a train window may have prevented the tragedy, an inquest heard.
Miss Roper, from Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, died on the evening of December 1, 2018, while returning home with friends from a day out Christmas shopping in Bath.