Segway Company Owner Drives Segway Off Cliff, Dies

[TerryMason]

This is bound to hurt Segway sales

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Jimi Heseldan, the 62-year-old owner of the Segway Company, died yesterday when he accidentally drove one of the two-wheeled gyroscope-controlled "future" transports off a cliff and into a river.


Heselden started out life as a miner in Britain before making millions in defense contracting and design with the money he saved from his severance package. Later in life he purchased the Segway company and, yesterday, he was patrolling the grounds of his North Yorkshire estate in one when it went off the trail and off a cliff into a river. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

 

[jps4jeep]

probably mistaked the gas for the brake

Don't these things only go like 10 mph... dude drove off a cliff, how do you not see that coming?

 

[TLCJ5]

Maybe he was on his cell phone or texting.

 

[HiHood]

OH! that's not good :lol: see why I live in the desert where there's no rivers or cliffs? oh yeah there is . . . . with a HUGE, HUGE cliff!!! :redface:

 

[chrisguerrero46]

I owned one of those Segways about 8 yrs ago and It was pretty fun to cruise around town on. I won it for a dollar in a raffle and sold it for $3500.00, it wasn't fun enough to pass that up! Sorry for that guy and his family though.

 

[xt master]

Cant you you just step off it and watch it go off the cliff while u get mad that you totaled your machine.

 

[54cj3b]

don't tell me he was trying to beat evil kin-evils record

(sorry just had too.)

OK now back to reality

damb hope they put that thing back on the assembly line and find out what caused this tragic accident don't need these things running wild all over the country
sucks someone had to die testing one of those stupid things