Coroner calls for ice hockey neck guards to be worn after Adam Johnson’s death

Johnson died from neck injury playing for NottinghamCoroner fears deaths ‘may occur in future’ unless guards worn

The coroner investigating the death of the Nottingham Panthers player Adam Johnson has told the governing body of ice hockey in the UK she is “sufficiently concerned that deaths may occur in the future” if neck guards are not worn.

Sheffield’s senior coroner, Tanyka Rawden, opened the inquest into the death of Johnson on Friday following the tragic incident at the city’s Utilita Arena on 28 October, when he was hit in the neck by the skate of a member of the opposing Sheffield Steelers team.

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