NEW ZEALANDER’S DEATH
■LONDON, August 27. Robert Charles Breen, of Brooklyn, Wellington, a 22-year-old printer, who was touring Britain on a motor-cycle, and was killed when he was involved in a collision with a. van in Snowdonia, was stated at the Inquest at Porthmadoc tonight to have been gazing at the scenery and driving on the wrong side of the road at the time of the accident. This was stated by the. van (friver, Thomas Roberts, who said that Breen was not looking at the road ahead. Roberts said he stopped his van, but Breen crashed into it head-on and the motor-cycle burst into flames. Medical evidence was that Breen died from concussion and shock. A verdict of accidental death was re-
added a rider that the van driver was not to blame.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27441, 30 August 1954, Page 11
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