Combination of factors led to death outside hospital

A combination of several factors contributed to the death of a woman who was knocked down outside a North Wales hospital, an inquest heard.

- By GARETH HUGHES

Hairdresser Mary Owen-Jones, 51, had been visiting her daughter in the maternity unit at Glan Clwyd Hospital, when the accident occurred on New Year's Day, 2023.

She was taken to the hospital's emergency department and found to have broken her leg, but when her condition deteriorated she was airlifted to the trauma unit at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. She died 36 hours later from a bleed on the brain, exacerbated by the anticoagulant Warfarin which she had been prescribed following a previous heart operation.

The inquest in Ruthin heard that Mrs Owen-Jones, of Dinerth Road, Rhos-on-Sea, was hit by a grey Audi driven by Chloe Thelwell, a staff nurse at the hospital, who was going home after finishing her shift.