A Bicycle Accident.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 106, 14 May 1901, Page 1

A Bicycle Accident.

Saturday’s New Zealand Herald gives tho following account of the recent bicycl e accident in Auckland:—

Another shocking bicycle accident took place late yesterday-afternoon, the victim being Mr Thos. Prosser,, sen., the wellknown boot manufacturer, of this city. He had been accustomed for the last three years to use the bicycle for exercise and for business purposes. Yesterday afternoon late he went out on his machine for exercise, and also to do some little business, going by way of Pitt-street to town. At the intersection of Pitt-street and Vincent-street he was knocked from his bicycle by a horse and trap, sustaining very grave injuries, which, as he is 73 years of age, makes his case-all the more serious. So far as- the"' : pa‘r'ticulars can be got from . eye-witnesses of. the accident, it appears that Mr' Prosser was on his right side of the road, pretty close to the kerbing, as was also a trap which was coming on behind him —a butcher’s cart, said to be driven by a young man named Lupton, in the employ of Mr Kimbor, of Wellington street. To the eyes of the bystanders and passers-by- the horse in the cart seemed to get restive, and suddenly swerved towards the bicycle, the horse coming into collision with Mr Prosser, who was knocked off the machine and

thrown heavily towards or on the kerbing. Mr Hanson, builder, an intimate friend of Mr Prosser's, who was on a passing ’bus, at- once jumped down, and’ with Mr Val. Woods, of South street,. .Newton, assisted to take Mr Prosser to his home, Karaugabape Road. Medical aid was invoked, and Dr Darby eame first and attended to tho patient’s injuries. Subsequently. Dr Lewis was also called in. Mr Prosser was found to have sustained very severe injuries, namely, two ribs broken on the right side, his right arm broken above the elbow, a cut 2in in length above the left temple, which required to be stitched, the left eye very severely cut and bruised, and the side of the nose injured, the flange of the nostril being severed. He has also suffered some concussion of the brain, his head being slightly dented, and last night he was in a semiconscious state. The doctors saw Mr Prosser a second time, and are awaiting developments. At Mr Prosser’s great age. it is feared that matters will go very hard with him.