winter day.} When it became too breezy {for one,} he 

stopped and put his overcoat {on} backwards to keep 

the wind {from ballooning it away} {from him.} A few miles 

further ^#1 {on,} the motorcycle hit a tree, killing the driver 

and stunning the fellow {with the reversed coat.} Later,

when the coroner visited the scene, he asked a rookie 

policeman standing nearby: "What happened?" "Well," the

officer replied, "one {of them} was dead when I got here,

and {by the time} I got the head {of the other one}

straightened around, he was dead, too."
 

1. "Further" is an adverb, but its function at this level is not clear so I have left it uncounted.