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Coroner: Christmas Eve Crash Victim Died of Natural Causes
The Medical Examiner's Office said a passerby found Benjamin Taylor of Oceanside unresponsive Monday afternoon in a Ford F-150 pickup truck, which was in a ditch against a tree near Manchester Avenue.
A 49-year-old man who was found dead in a truck off an Encinitas roadway on Christmas Eve died of natural causes, the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office reported today.
The Medical Examiner's Office said a passerby found Benjamin Taylor of Oceanside unresponsive Monday afternoon in a Ford F-150 pickup truck, which was in a ditch against a tree near Manchester Avenue.
Paramedics administered CPR, and Taylor was taken to Scripps Memorial Hospital in Encinitas, where he was pronounced dead despite aggressive attempts to revive him.
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Autopsy findings showed Taylor died due to "hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease."
—City News Service
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