YOUTH'S DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1935, Page 7

YOUTH'S DEATH.

UMLIGHTED CYCLES. CAUSE OF ACCIDENT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. The -fact that two bicycles were ridden without lights caused the death of Vivian Ronald Donovan, a farm hand, aged 20, was the verdict returned yesterday by Mr. F. M. Platts, S.M., coroner. Deceased died in the Waikato Hospital on March 15 from a fractured ekull, received in a collision at Waitoa two clays previously. Sergeant Anniss represented the polic, and Mr. E. McGregor represented A. W. Carter. A dairy factory employee, Arthur William Carter, gave evidence that when returning from Te Aroha to Waitoa on a bicycle at 11 p.m. on March 13 he collided with a bicycle ridden by deceased. Witness had no light on his bicycle. He was riding down a small hill at a moderate speed at the time. Witness was thrown from his machine and was rendered unconscious. When he recovered ho found deceased lying unconscious on the road. There was no lamp on deceased's cycle.

Theodore Edward Oates, dairy farmer, Waitoa, said he was accompanying Carter at the time and was carrying a torch. Carter wae a few yards ahead of him.