(UK, _, law) An accidental death not caused by any violation of law or criminal negligence, but by a risk taken voluntarily.
8 July 1969¶ Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones drowned while ‘drunk and drugged’: coroner records death by misadventure. Mick Jagger pays poetic tribute in London’s Hyde Park.
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