UK exec, who bought firm a year ago, dies in accident near his estate
A British businessman, who bought the Segway company less than a year ago, died after riding one of the scooters off a cliff and into a river near his Yorkshire estate.
Jim Heselden acquired the Segway company from its U.S. inventor Dean Kamen in December 2009.
According to the British media, Heselden, 62, plunged into the River Wharfe while riding a rugged country version of the two-wheeled transporter on Sunday.
"Police were called at 11.40 a.m. yesterday to reports of a man in the River Wharfe, apparently having fallen from the cliffs above," a spokesman told The Daily Mail.
A Segway was recovered from the scene. "At this time we do not believe the death to be suspicious," the spokesman added.
Heselden was worth around $265 million and ranked 395th on the Sunday Times Rich List.
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Anyone with that much money has made alot of enemies along the way. And as his businesses were primarily sandbag/bunker protection for military, my guess is with more war looming, giving him a little help off a cliff might open up some opertunities for investors and in the least cause disruption in managment and business in general, I remenber watching PBS in the early 1980's interviewing the former owner of the first toxic waste dump site in N.J. The two owners were approached by two unknown men representing an investor group that wanted to buy the toxic waste business. The two owners refused, and one was murdered shortly thereafter. The survivor was approached again and this time was told that they had killed his partner. He asked why he was still alive and not his partner/ Because your the weaker of the two and if you don't sell, we'll just buy it from your wives. I watched the whole documentay on PBS told by the survivor, he sold the business to them. They call themselves a consordium in N.J. They own things like malls in Delaware, killed a guy that I knew for his land (he refused to sell) to expand the mall. Told his girlfriend, his only heir, we killed him, sell or end up like him, and we'll buy it from your heir, she sold. The only way this guy drove off a cliff is if he were suicidal.
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