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| Boy, 10, died 'playing on lorry' | Boy, 10, died 'playing on lorry' |
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| A coroner has warned youngsters of the danger of climbing on moving vehicles after a 10-year-old boy died after falling off the back of a lorry. | A coroner has warned youngsters of the danger of climbing on moving vehicles after a 10-year-old boy died after falling off the back of a lorry. |
| Jordan Lee Widdall-Hughes, from Newport in south Wales, fell onto the city's busy Southern Distributor Road (SDR). | Jordan Lee Widdall-Hughes, from Newport in south Wales, fell onto the city's busy Southern Distributor Road (SDR). |
| An inquest heard he received head injuries and the coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death. | An inquest heard he received head injuries and the coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death. |
| Jordan had been playing with friends but they managed to safely jump from the lorry as it gathered speed. | Jordan had been playing with friends but they managed to safely jump from the lorry as it gathered speed. |
| The inquest heard how Jordan, from the Pill area of the city, had got onto a lorry as it turned into a street. | |
| He died at the Royal Gwent Hospital after suffering a fractured skull and brain damage. | |
| Newport coroner David Bowen said he was satisfied the lorry driver had no way of knowing what Jordan and his friends were up to. | |
| He said: "Even though a sense of adventure is a part of growing up - parents should stress to their children that jumping on moving vehicles is unacceptable, dangerous and potentially fatal." |