DEATH OF CYCLIST.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 3 December 1926, Page 9

DEATH OF CYCLIST.

EVIDENCE AT ADJOURNED INQUEST. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) PALMERSTON N., Dec. 3. The adjourned inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Cyril Alfred Kreagher (27), who died in the Palmerston North Hospital on July 24, consequent oil injuries received through being knocked down by a motor lorry while cycling on the Kimbolton Road, Tedding, on the previous evening, was held this morning. ' Medical evidence was given to the effect that the deceased’s injuries were too severe to permit of an operation at the hospital. The post mortem revealed that the bowel was completely divided in two places. There were signs that the deceased had taken liquor. Deceased’s brother stated in evidence that when the former left him to proceed home he was quite sober. Arthur John McElroy, machinery foreman for the Oroua County Council, and driver of the lorry which struck the deceased, said that the vehicle carried two kerosene lamps, one on each side. He could see from a chain to a chain and a half by the lights in front of the lorry. A car coming towards him blinded him. He pulled over further towards his correct side and felt a bump. Prior to that he had seen nothing on the road except the approaching car. He stopped the lorry, and on investigating found the deceased badly injured, also his bicycle, badly damaged and with the lamp still burning. Witness said his .speed at the time of the accident was twelve to fourteen miles per hour. The coronor’ s verdict was that the deceased died from a rupture of the bowel), caused through being knocked down bv a lorry driven by McElroy. The coroner said he did not propose to comment on the culpability of the driver, as even if there were no criminal proceedings there might he a civil action.