Soldier walking home hit and killed by lorry in early hours, inquest hears
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L/Cpl Kayde Kumar, 24, from Wrexham, died on 28 January 2022 on the way back to his army base in Upavon, Wiltshire.Coroner David Ridley recorded a conclusion that alcohol impaired his thinking and that he would have been hard to see due to his dark clothing. He had been out in Amesbury, Wiltshire, with four other soldiers, and had drunk more than five pints of lager, Disaronno and Cokes and shots.Lance Corporal Kayde Kumar was walking back to his base in Upavon after going out for drinks in Amesbury
At about 02:10 GMT on January 28 last year, while approximately three miles east of Stonehenge, the soldier was hit by the wing mirror of the DAF lorry and was pronounced dead two hours later.
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