 No.5 is eventually sold to Barry Grant in 1994 and the proceeds split between Lyn, Sammy, Geoff (Stephen Walters) and Katie (Diane Burke).Tony Dixon dies three months later, having never regained consciousness, and at his funeral, Jimmy confesses that he was the driver of the other car.Just before Brookside's demise in 2003, Frances Traynor from the "Daily Record" named the crash that caused Frank's death one of the show's "most controversial plotlines".