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Coroner finds police officer had right to pursue Damian John Lawton before fatal crash

The Queensland Coroner has ruled that a police officer was entitled to engage in an attempted intercept in the lead-up to the death of a Maryborough motorcyclist two and a half years ago.

Damian John Lawton, 26, died on May 30, 2020, when he crashed his motorcycle into a car at a Maryborough intersection while he was being pursued by a police officer on a motorcycle.

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