BRAKES FAILED.
TRUCK IN COLLISION. CYCLIST'S FATAL INJURY. COMMENT BY CORONEK. (By Telegraph.—rrcss Association.) CIIRISTCHURCII, this day. At the inquest concerning the death of Mr. Hubert John Suckling, a-red oS, a well-known business man, wlio was killed while cycling in a collision with a truck driven by A. E. Keys on June '2(i, the coroner, Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., returned a formal verdict that death was due to injuries. The coroner also commented on the evidence relating to the condition, of the brakes on the truck. "When Keys braked the truck," said the coroner, '"lie says it skidded some distance—l2t't to 17ft —and then suddenly the brakes failed to act. It sems to be an extraordinary position. For six years no such occurrence takes place, and when an accident occurs it iis attributed to this. It strains one's credulity to believe that fact. However, it may be so. The police, in tests which they* made, found the brakes inefficient. I don't propose to say anything more than that."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 170, 20 July 1934, Page 5
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