A man died nine years after suffering a devastating brain injury which left him bed bound, an inquest had heard.

Andrew Ball had been working in Peterborough in July 2009 when he was struck by a car.

The 45-year-old, who was born in Gravesend, had been carrying a water bottle on his shoulder, which hit him in the head, causing multiple bleeds to his brain.

He spent four months in a coma in a hospital in Cambridge, before being transferred to Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford, to be closer to his family.

He underwent rehabilitation treatment which was unsuccessful.

He was bed bound, unable to communicate in anyway, and had to be fed via a tube to his stomach.

At the inquest into his death at the Archbishop's Palace, Maidstone on Monday, July 1, the court heard how he had been living in a care home in Lower Herne Road, Herne Bay.

Mr Ball was subject to 24-hour care and a statement from his GP read that he suffered many chest infections due to his inmobility, as he was therefore unable to fight them off.

Coroner Sonia Hayes recorded the cause of death on Sunday, May 26 as bronchopneumonia and renal carcinoma with traumatic brain injury.

She also concluded his death was an accident.