AN elderly motorist who died when her car hit a lamp-post on Tuesday was named yesterday.
A post-mortem examination showed that 81-year-old Amy Ord, of Gaskell Way, Crook, County Durham, died of natural causes and not as a result of the crash.
A spokesman for Durham Police said: "The result of the post-mortem confirms the belief of accident investigators that she had been taken ill at the wheel immediately before her Nissan Micra crashed in High West Road."
Witnesses said the car had begun to weave from side to side before it left the road.
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