His wife, Rita Martin, described her late husband as “a very careful and cautious man”. She told the coroner, Aisling Gannon, that she and her family had serious concerns about how his death had occurred and how it was subsequently investigated.
Mr Martin described going to the crash site the following day and finding a pool of blood but being mistakenly informed by a garda that it was hydraulic oil. Mr Hodnett said Mr Martin had begun training at 8.30am that day and they had just returned to training after a coffee break at around 12.40pm when the crash happened.
However, he said it was not always possible to tell if a rider had closed the strap on their helmet and it was an issue he encountered frequently. HSA inspector Joeline Cantwell said no defects had been found with the helmet used by the deceased, while all the required risk assessments and safety statements had been in place at the time by Two Wheels Training.