ACCIDENTAL DEATH.
FALL FROM A BICYCLE. CORONIAL INQUIRY. An inquest was held at the Magistrate's Court this morning by Mr. W. R. McKean, coroner, touching the death of William Harry Collings, a newspaper runner, 47 years of age. Harold Beresford stated in evidence that he and deceased were riding bicycles, and when ocming down a hill close to Orakei, deceased's cycle got out of control and he was precipitated into a creek. After further evidence, the coroner returned a verdict of accidental death as the result of injuries to the brain received from a fall from a bicycle.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 189, 11 August 1928, Page 11
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