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Segway Company Owner Died Because Of His Politeness

The coroner working on the case of Jimi Heselden’s death last year has ruled it was an accident, seemingly due to allowing a dog-walker to pass him on the narrow cliff-path, making him reverse and fall 13m. [BBC]


September 28, 2010

Segway Owner James Heselden: Inventor, Philanthropist

Jimi Heselden will forever be remembered as the Segway chairman who rode his product off a cliff. That’s a shame. Because Heselden’s life amounted to so much more than that one tragic accident.


September 27, 2010
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Segway Company Owner Dies After Driving Segway Off Cliff

Just like the countless innovators, explorers and fine people killed in a Frankensteinian way by their own inventions, the owner of the Segway company died yesterday after he rode off a cliff and into a river in Northern England.