GLARING LIGHTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 18, 22 January 1927, Page 7

GLARING LIGHTS

LEAD TO FATALFTY

MOIOR CYCLIST KILLED

_ (By Telegraph.) (special to "The Evening Post")

• AUCKLAND, This Day. Comment on the lack of protective Tailing along the seaward side of the esplanade at Kohimarama. was made -yesterday by Mr. F. E. Hunt, the Coroner, at the conclusion of an inquest regarding the death of Henry Alfred James Noon (22), a member of the Eemuera^ire Brigade, who died in the Auckland Hospital on 31st December as the result of a fall from a motor-cycle at Kohimarama two days previously Mr. Hunt said that he thought the' attention of the Tamakl Boad Board should be drawn to the matter and that the board should consider the advisability of erecting a protective railing William Walter Edgerley, a schoolmaster, said that, shortly after 8 p.m. on 29th December, he was sitting on the esplanade at Kohimarama when a motor-car with extremely dazzling headlights came.towards him. The motorcycle, bidden by the deceased, came toward the ear, keeping far over to his own side, evidently to avoid the glare. The cycle struck the ferro-conerete kerbing of the Esplanade, close to the stone roadway leading down to the beach, and the deceased was hurled down on to the roadway. The accident happened immediately beneath an electric light standard, but the light was not burning at the time. The motorist, who was travelling in the opposite direction to the deceased, did not stop, although he must have seen something was wrong. His callousness was disgraceful. '

- After hearing other evidence,' the Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. ,