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image captionBethan Roper was fatally injured by a tree branch while leaning out of the window on a Great Western Railway service travelling at about 75mph
A woman who stuck her head out of a train window was killed by a tree branch, an inquest jury has concluded.
She was returning home to South Wales after a day out with friends Christmas shopping in Bath.
Avon coroner Maria Voisin said she would not write a preventing future deaths report because the carriage involved was being phased out.
The Great Western Railway (GWR) train was travelling at about 75mph (120kmph) when it happened on 1 December 2018, jurors heard.
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Penarth woman who stuck head out of train window killed by tree branch, jury concludes A PENARTH woman was killed by an overhanging tree branch when she stuck her head out of the window of a moving high-speed train, an inquest jury has concluded. Bethan Roper, 28, suffered fatal head injuries while a passenger on the Great Western Railway (GWR) train travelling at around 75mph. Miss Roper was returning home to South Wales on December 1 2018 from a day out with friends Christmas shopping in Bath. The GWR London Paddington to Exeter service was using carriages fitted with droplight windows to enable passengers to use the handle on the outside when they needed to leave the train at the platform.