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Luc Gagné
The owner of Hesco Bastion Ltd, Jimi Heselden, died yesterday in an accident seemingly implicating a Segway, the one-person electric vehicle manufactured by his conglomerate.

The 62-year-old British millionnaire evidently drove off a cliff rising above the river Wharfe. The body was reportedly found there, near his home in West Yorkshire, England. A Segway was found nearby.

The Segway was developped by American inventor Dean Kamen, who founded the company of the same name in 1999. Mr Heselden acquired the company in 2009.

Luc Gagné
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