FATAL COLLISION AT ISLAND BAY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 9, 11 July 1910, Page 2

FATAL COLLISION AT ISLAND BAY.

YOUTHFUL CYCLIST KILLED. A youthful cyclist named Roy Cornish, who met with ( a serious accident at Island Bay on Saturday evening, died in the hospital yesterday morning. The injuries were sustained in a collision with a pedestrian on a steep grade on the Island Bay-road, Odlin's Loop. It appears that C&rnish was riding home at about 6.30, when he overtook Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Fenton. The first they knew of the cyclist's approach was a shouted, "Look out." Almost simultaneously deceased, collided with Mr. Fenton, who 1 was thrown heavily, while the immediate effect on Cornish was to precipitate him violently to tho roadway. Both the pedestrian and the cyclist were rendered unconscious. Mr. Fenton was removed to Dr. Deanier's residence suffering from concussion and several broken ribs. Cornish was placed on a passing tramcar, bleeding from the nose and ears. He was removed to the hospital, apparently fatally injured. It was found he was suffering from a serious fracture of the base of the skull, and he succumbed early yesterday morning as stated. Mr. Fenton, at onetime in the service of the Bank of New Zealand, is progressing as well as can be expected, but it will be some time before he can get about again. Cornish, it is said, was travelling at a fast pace. Mr. and Mrs.- Fenton did not hear a bell. The bicycle, it is understood, carried no lamp. The deceased, who was only sixteen years of age, | was an apprentice at Jenkins and Mack, plumbers. An inquest is being held at the hospital this afternoon.