MOTOR-CYCLE CRASH
DEATH OF RIDER CORONER'S SUGGESTION (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. "It is a pity that something is not done by organisations to which motorcyclists belong to see that riders wear crash helmets. This is the third or fourth case of a motor-cyclist being killed during the last few weeks. I am satisfied that 50 per cent, of the young men who have died because of injuries received when thrown ■ from cycles would be alive today if they had worn helmets that would have given protection to the head." These remarks ware made by Mr. F. K. Hunt, Coroner, today, when returning a verdict of accidental death through a fractured skull at an inquest on Frederick Saker, aged 20, single, of Epsom, who died in the Auckland Hospital on May 12.
The evidence showed that a motorcycle ridden by Saker with a male friend on the pillion seat was returning to Auckland from Otahuhu at night. Travelling at between 45 and 50 miles an hour, it failed to take a bend, crashed into a stone wall, and, landing in a swamp, burst into flames. Saker was thrown on the xoad. Both young men were quite sober.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 151, 29 June 1938, Page 15
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