A farmworker skidded and crashed into a tree on his way to pick up his girlfriend from a pub where she worked.
Damon Aplin, 25, of Synderford Close, Didcot, died in hospital of a skull fracture and multiple injuries after being found, on April 26 this year, in a Peugeot GTi, near the Packhorse pub, at Milton Hill.
Coroner Nicholas Gardiner heard that earlier in the evening Mr Aplin had drunk one and a half pints of lager.
Post-mortem tests revealed Mr Aplin had 120 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood - the legal limit is 80 milligrams. The reading was likely to have been "diluted" by hospital transfusions. The results also revealed the presence of a low level of cocaine taken some time before the accident.
Mr Gardiner recorded a verdict of accidental death.
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