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Football fan gets off moving coach

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You have this story in your slush pile, but it is incorrect, the correct details are as follows:

Daniel McFarlane, from Newport, 22, suffered multiple injuries when he fell through the emergency door returning from a Manchester United game.

Coroner Robin Balmain heard Mr McFarlane had been drinking heavily and also had cocaine in his system.

Mr McFarlane had kicked open the coach's emergency door on the M5 near West Bromwich, fell and died instantly.

He had been watching United beat Everton in February last year when he took a supporters' bus back to Newport with 40 other fans.

Mr McFarlane, a carpenter, had been warned he would have to leave the vehicle nearly 100 miles from his home because he had been arguing and refused to clear up broken glass.

Fellow passenger Rees Stephenson said Mr McFarlane shouted: "If you want me off the bus I'll get off" and kicked open the emergency door.

The football fan died instantly of multiple injuries after falling from the coach, which was travelling at 60mph on the M5 near West Bromwich in the West Midlands.

Black Country coroner Robin Balmain said: "I am satisfied that this wasn't something he would have done if he had been thinking rationally."

Submitted on 04/23/2010

Submitted by: Jamie HIrst
Reference: BBC news 23/04/09

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Candi said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
Doesn't matter if it's a mistake or a temper tantrum -it's STILL stupid. Thanks, James!

Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: For Darwin's Eyes
Thanks for the additional information, Jamie.

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