DEATH OF CYCLIST
Negligent Driving Charge DRIVER SENT FOR TRIAL By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, April 14. On February 4 a cyclist named Joseph Rogal received fatal injuries when he was knocked down by a motortruck driven by John Edward Cook, storekeeper, of Amberley. Cook was yesterday charged in the Magistrate’s Court with negligently driving a motor-truck and thereby causing the death of Rogal. He pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial. It was alleged on behalf of the Crown that Cook was racing with another motor-truck on the Marshland Road, and driving at a speed which different witnesses estimated at from 30 to 45 miles an hour. Overtaking Rogal, Cook swerved to the right, but not sufficiently to avoid him.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 171, 15 April 1932, Page 7
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121DEATH OF CYCLIST Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 171, 15 April 1932, Page 7
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