A man found dead near his car on the M40 has been named.
Sedji Sejdiu’s black Vauxhall Astra was discovered in the central reservation between junctions 11 and 12 of the motorway on April 12.
At the time, police said the hire vehicle may have been in the thick undergrowth separating the two motorway carriageways for around a week.
Opening an inquest into his death at Oxford Coroner’s Court on Wednesday, senior coroner for Oxfordshire Darren Salter noted the cause of the 40-year-old plasterer's death following a post-mortem as 'multiple injuries'.
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Summarising a police report, Mr Salter said that repairs to the motorway crash barrier on April 12 meant drivers stuck in slow-moving traffic saw Mr Sejdiu’s hire car in a tree in the central reservation.
“Due to the density of the trees and speed of traffic the vehicle nor the deceased were not visible until they were sighted by slow-moving traffic,” he said.
Highways officers arrived at the scene before the police officers. They found Mr Sejdiu’s body near the Astra, together with a number of ‘personal items’.
The victim was identified to the police by family members at the John Radcliffe Hospital on April 20.
Although no one witnessed the crash, police believed that it took place on April 5.
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The crash investigators did not believe there were suspicious circumstances, Mr Salter said.
The coroner’s court heard that Mr Sejdiu was born in Kosovo and prior to his death lived in Walterton Road, London.
No date was set for the inquest, although the senior coroner said a date would be fixed in ‘due course’.
Earlier this month, investigating officer PC Charlie Etheridge of the Joint Operations Road Policing Unit said: “We are appealing for any witnesses, or motorists who may have dash-cam footage, of the incident to please come forward.
“Although this was reported to us [on April 12], we believe it may have happened at around 4.20am on April 5.
“Anyone who has information or dash-cam footage can make a report by calling 101 or via our website, quoting reference 43220157746.”
The police said the man’s next of kin had been identified and informed of his death.
An inquest is typically held where someone has suffered a non-natural death but also take place in cases of workplace deaths, for example where someone has developed lung cancer as a result of working with asbestos.
The purpose of an inquest is to establish the identity of the deceased and how, where and when they came by their death.
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