AN 86-YEAR-OLD man died after suffering a heart attack and falling over as he crossed the road, an inquest heard.

CCTV footage showed Robert Lamprell making his way across Poole Road in Westbourne and stumble over a raised kerb at a bus stop.

Police ran to help and tried to resuscitate him as he lay on the ground on August 6. PC Stuart Grant made it to Mr Lamprell first and said a young mum was at the bus stop.

“His head was resting on her foot but she was in a state of shock and was scared to move it,” he told the inquest in Bournemouth.

PC Grant added: “I could tell his life was slipping away so I checked for a pulse.”

Paramedics took over but Mr Lamprell died the next day at Poole Hospital.

His daughter Sarah said he walked into Westbourne on most days and was a healthy pensioner, living on his own in a first floor flat in Curzon Court, Portarlington Road.

Ian Kalra, Bournemouth council’s transportation manager, said the kerb at the bus stop near Iceland had been raised in 1998 to help disabled people access buses.

Pathologist David Parham said Mr Lamprell suffered the fall and hit his head because he had a heart attack and gave heart failure as the cause of death.

He said Mr Lamprell suffered neck injuries and had become paralysed from the neck down.

Miss Lamprell’s solicitor Paul Hester suggested to the pathologist that the fall may have caused the heart attack.

Mr Parham disagreed but as he could not dismiss the possibility entirely the deputy coroner Brendan Allen could not make a decision on that and recorded an open verdict.