PILLION PASSENGERS

Evening Star, Issue 21717, 11 May 1934, Page 8

PILLION PASSENGERS

DANGERS COMMENTED ON BY CORONER [Per United Press Association.] £ CHRISTCHURCH, May M. “ This is an accident that shows th«i danger of two-wheeled machines —motor cycles and bicycles—carrying passengers, either on the back of the motor cycle or on the bar of the bicycle,” said Mr Mosley, S.M. (coroner), returning a verdict of accidental death at the inquest on Emily Rix, a married woman, aged forty-seven, who died in Christchurch 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 collision with a motor cycle ridden by Max Cashmere Couzins, who was carrying a pillion rider. The coroner added that it was an unfortunate accident. The motor cyclist was not to blame. When motor cycles or bicycles carried pillion riders they could not be handled as they were meant to be. It impaired facility la handling.