MOTOR CYCLISTS WARNED
COMMENT BY OCRONER. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLING TON. Aug|. 26. A warning that motor cyclists should when travelling at high speeds, take into account the possibility of pistons seizing was given .by Mr. McNeil, :S.'M., at an inquest touching the. death of Terence Sefton Balloon, who fell off his motor cycle on August 19 and died in the ’Wellington Hospital. The coroner said that the evidence showed that the time of the accident deceased, had attainiedi a. fairly high speed. He was satisfied that Balloon was- not struck by any .motor "vehicle, and there was no obstruction on the road. Something had happened to the motor cycle, probably the seizing- of a piston, a happening which motor cyclists travelling at a high speed 1 should take, into account. The cycle had wobbled, .nidi skidded, and Balloon thrown to the ground, receiving injuries from which he died.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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