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A woman from Huddersfield has died of injuries she received in 1972 during a traffic accident, a coroner ruled.

The Huddersfield Daily Examiner reports that Carolyn Adamson died after her brain injury caused multiple organ failure.

Miss Adamson, who was 27 at the time of the accident, was travelling back from a night out in Sheffield with her boyfriend Trevor Cousins and their friends Cynthia Rawson and Barry Thompson when the traffic accident occurred.

David Adams, 67, had fallen asleep at the wheel of his car and it drifted into the opposite carriageway, colliding with the car containing Miss Adamson.

Ms Rawson was killed in the crash while Miss Adamson was taken to hospital with serious brain injury.

The newspaper reports that Mr Cousins told the court: "I lost contact with Carolyn. Her parents asked me not to visit and I didn’t see her again."

This comes after AA insurance reported that the snowy weather is causing more traffic collisions, with a 23 per cent rise in accident claims.

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