CYCLE FATALITY
CORONER'S COMMENTS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
' "This is an accident that shows the danger of two-wheeled machines —motor-cycles and bicycles—carrying passengers, either on the back of a .motor-cycle or the bar of a bicycle," said Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., Coroner, in returning a verdict of accidental death at an inquest concerning the death of Emily Rix, a married woman, aged 47, who died in the Christchurci Hospital on April 25. She was admitted on April 22 suffering from head injuries received .when her husband's bicycle, on -which she was riding ', as a passenger on the bar, came into 661----lision. r with,'a motor-cycle ridden ;by Mas: Cashmere Couzins, -who was carrying a pillion-rider.
The Coroner added that it was an unfortunate accident, and the motorcyclist -was not to blame. When motorcycles or bicycles carried pillion-riders they could not be handled as they were meant to be.- It impaired facility in handling. '.■'..'
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1934, Page 13
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155CYCLE FATALITY Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1934, Page 13
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