when it's your time
Crash tradegy Aug 17 2005
By Helen Rae, The Evening Chronicle
A grandfather whose heart stopped at the wheel was jolted back to life when he crashed into a bus stop - only to suffer a second fatal attack.
Just minutes after Selby Sarginson, 66, dropped off his wife Frances for work at a chartered surveyors in Gateshead's Team Valley, he is believed to have blacked out causing him to lose control of his car.
But the pensioner, known as Sonny, appeared fine when his wife arrived at the scene of the accident on Ropery Road, Gateshead, after a call from police, although he couldn't recall what happened.
Sonny, of Cedar Crescent, Dunston, Gateshead, who had a heart transplant in 1997, had just been for a regular hospital check-up. He was taken to Newcastle's Freeman hospital for observation but while Frances sat in the waiting room he suffered a fatal heart attack.