BBC broadcaster Dame Jenni Murray died days after being involved in a car crash in which she was dazzled by headlights, an inquest was told.<\/p>\n
Dame Jenni, who was the longest-serving presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, died aged 75 on 12 March, eight days after a collision in north London. <\/p>\n
North London area coroner Tony Murphy ruled her cause of death was bronchopneumonia caused by fractures to her rib and sternum fractures sustained in the crash.<\/p>\n
A statement from Dr Clare Morkane, a consultant at the Royal Free Hospital where Dame Jenni died after being admitted on 4 March, stated: “Jennifer had been driving when she became dazzled by vehicle lights and collided with two stationary vehicles.”<\/p>\n
Dr Morkane added: “Following the collision, Jennifer was unable to recall events, exited the vehicle independently and she was conveyed to hospital.”<\/p>\n
The crash took place near Hampstead Heath, at around 19:45 GMT, the inquest heard.<\/p>\n
It resulted in “multiple rib fractures”, a fracture to the upper sternum and a collapsed lung.<\/p>\n
The broadcaster was initially placed on non-invasive ventilation before being moved to intensive care, but she developed bronchopneumonia.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Police investigated the crash but closed its investigation with no further action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC broadcaster Dame Jenni Murray died days after being involved in a car crash in which she was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-751618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}