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CAMBRIDGE, England, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- An English parking enforcement officer was "very disturbed" to find the driver dead inside a car after he had written a ticket, colleagues said.

Investigators say the driver, a man who appeared to be in his 50s, may have died from a heart attack Wednesday afternoon, The Sun reported. Cambridge police said the death was not considered suspicious.

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The officer wrote a ticket when he saw the car had run out of time in a parking space in the center of Cambridge. Then he saw a man lying in the car and realized he was dead.

"I heard the call come in on the radio," another enforcement officer told the newspaper. "He is really shaken up by it."

His supervisor, Phillip Hammer, said the officer was "very disturbed" by the incident.

"We had seen the man but just thought he was having a kip," said Bob Borges, who parked near the dead man's car. "When we came back to our car the police were everywhere and they'd put up a tent around the car."

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