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An inquest heard that a Scaffolder drove his car into a lorry just weeks after he was told he was being made redundant from his job.
Scaffolder Paul Taylor, 26, was in a lot of debt when he was laid off from Sellafield Power Station.
He died at the scene as he was not wearing a seatbelt, and tests found he had drugs and alcohol in his body.
Paul had spent that day in pubs with his brother talking about what music he wanted at his funeral and telling friends to read the newspapers the next day.
A few days before his death he told a friend that he had attempted to kill himself by driving in front of a lorry but it swerved out of the way. He also added that he was thinking about it again and did not want to see a psychiatrist.
Coroner David Roberts told the Workington inquest he was satisfied that Mr Taylor, of Egremont, Cumbria, had deliberately driven into the lorry to end his life.
He praised the truck driver, Ian Proudman, for trying to get out of the way but added: “It seems to me that Mr Taylor drove in your way.”
The verdict to the inquest was suicide.
