^ 'BBC News: Segway boss leaves £340m to his wife and family'.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. ^ 'Segway company owner rides scooter off cliff, dies'.'Jimi Heselden: Miner who used his redundancy money to become a'. ^ a b Childs, Martin (1 October 2010).'The man who gave £23m of his fortune to charity'. ^ a b Freeman, Sarah (18 September 2010).^ a b 'Segway boss Jimi Heselden dies in scooter cliff fall'.'Segway bought by Chinese rival Ninebot'. ^ a b Fortson, Danny Beresford, Philip (21 December 2008).^ a b c d Wainwright, Martin (30 September 2010).^ 'Segway boss Jimi Heselden dies in scooter cliff fall'.His estate, bequeathed to his widow and family, was worth over £340 million and he was ranked in the top 400 members of the Sunday Times Rich List. The coroner concluded that Heselden had died of 'multiple blunt force injuries of the chest and spine consistent with a fall whilst riding a gyrobike'. A 'rugged country version' of a Segway was found in the water. On the morning of 26 September 2010, Heselden was riding his Segway while walking his dog near Thorp Arch when he reversed the Segway to allow a fellow dog walker to get past him, he fell from a nearby cliff into the River Wharfe. Heselden said, 'There are people out there who are making money and when times are good I honestly believe people have a moral obligation to use their wealth to help others.' Also in 2008, Heselden contributed £10 million to setting up the Leeds Community Foundation he would later donate an additional £13 million.

In 2008, Heselden donated £1.5 million to the Help For Heroes fund through a charity auction bid for nine people to fly with the Red Arrows. He had owned the company for only nine months at the time of his accidental death while using a Segway. On Christmas day 2009, Heselden purchased the Segway company. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours, 'for services to the Defence industry and to Charity.' Made in Hesco's factory in Leeds, these were shipped (flat-packed) in great numbers to conflict zones, including Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as later being used for flood defences at New Orleans. In 1989, Heselden founded Hesco Bastion Ltd to manufacture containers of the same name filled with sand or earth, they quickly found favour with the armies of several countries, as they allowed effective blast walls, barriers and revetments to be quickly constructed. He then worked on developing and patenting a collapsible wire mesh and fabric container, later called the Hesco bastion, to be used for building flood management and to limit erosion. He lost his job in the wave of redundancies that followed the 1980s miners' strike he spent his redundancy money on renting a workshop, and initially set up a sandblasting business. He attended school in Osmondthorpe, leaving at the age of 15 to work as a labourer and then at collieries in Temple Newsam and Lofthouse. James William Heselden was born in the Halton Moor district of Leeds on 27 March 1948. and famously died in 2010 from injuries sustained falling from a cliff while riding his own Segway PT. A former coal miner, he became wealthy by manufacturing the Hesco bastion barrier system. James William ' Jimi' Heselden OBE (27 March 1948 – 26 September 2010) was an English entrepreneur.

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