CYCLIST'S DEATH

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21747, 1 April 1936, Page 17

CYCLIST'S DEATH

ACCIDENT ON EVANS PASS ROAD MACHINE THOUGHT TO HAVE, BEEN OUT OP CONTROL Cyril Cook, aged 22, of 262 Wilson's; road, Opawa, died in the Christchurch C Public Hospital last evening, after re- v ceiving serious Injuries in a cycling accident on Evans Pass Toad yesterday afternoon. It is surmised that Be Was, ' thrown heavily when his cycle got out t of control as he was riding down a * steep slope over the hill fromLyttelton 1 towards Sumner. The exact cifCum- *. stances of the accident are not known. as there were no eye*witneSsca toff' the bicycle has not yet been examined > by the police. . a '• A passing motorist found Cook, lying beside* bis biCyole near the gutter at * the inner side of the road at thfe end Of - a steep slope. He was conscious andsaid that he bad come id grief When riding down the incline at a fairly hlghf speed. He was driven by the motorist to Monck’s Spur, and after bbiim dt*.-r tended by Dr. R- F. Bakewcllf ol SUroner, he was taken to the hospital in a. St. John ambulance, being 5 o’clock. He was suffering

fracture of the right thigh and rib S and, it is thought, from internal w- v juries. He died at 8.16, a little nwj® ' than three hours after admissitavanQ was conscious almost to the time of f. Ids death. Until the hteycle is examined it is & Impossible to say exactly what was tee cause of the accident,' Whether ofr 5 hot it was due to a fault in the cycle. .

ACCIDENT AT PAREOKA * A harrow escape from serious injury was experienced by Miss 8. Guthrie, When she was thrown heavily item her bicycle. She received a severe wound in the bead and concussion. Mgtf-'.'- , condition now is satisfactory. , KILLED BY PALLING LOG (FBSS3 ASSOCIATION t«UI(J»4».) GISBORNE, March ji. ; While bush felling at TeWera today, John Wallace, aged 19. WM’ltKtck by a falling log. and died soon aftetv admission to hospital. Re wasaeonof Mr John Rennie- Wallace* a log- -r hauler driver of Matawai, who 'Waift present when the accident happened."'-