ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 21620, 16 January 1934, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

A PILLION RIDER’S DEATH. INQUEST FURTHER ADJOURNED, Further evidence at thp inquest, concerning the death of the young woman, Rita Hilda Corbett, who was thrown off the pillion seat of a motor cycle near Woodend. was heard when the testimony of the rider of the machine, Frederick Joseph Hobbs, was taken in the Christchurch Hospital. -Hobbs, who is still suffering from back injuries, said they were returning at 2 a.m, from a dance at Rangiora. When the accident occurred he was travelling about thirty miles an hour, slowing down at the turns. He had a very, vague idea of what happened. His only recollection of a crash was seeing some obstacle in front of him and trying to avoid it, but he did .not seem -able to do so, and felt; as if his back wheel , was dragging him round ;on to it. . The - coroner. (Mr* E. D: Mosley, S.M.) told witness that the motor cycle had gone through a gofse-fence which was not very high, and had then ran into a paddock, and had apparently hit a tree stump two feet high. The motor cycle must have, been lifted,, as Miss Corbett? s head had evidently struck a; raacrocarpa tree just in front; The inquest was adjourned to Rangiora tomorrow;—Christchurch Press Association. CYCLIST INJURED. When he; fell frdlm, his cycle at Fairfield? last evening, William- Cooper, a single man, fifty-two years of age, residing at Fairfield, received a'fractured rib and suffered slight'concussion. Ha was admitted to the Hospital at 7.45.