CYCLIST KILLED IN CRASH
LORRY DRIVER NOT. TO BLAME. RIDING ON WRONG TRACK. 'By TVlpgrapb Association.» WELLINGTON, April 30. A finding of death from shook and cerebral injuries was recorded by the coroner, Mr E. Gilbertson, J.P., at an inquest at Lower Hntt into the death of Walter Thomas Cotton, who was knocked off his bicycle in a collision with a Hutt Meat Company motor-lorry at Lower Hntt at about 5.30 a.m. on Saturday. The coroner added that in hie opinion the driver of the lorry, James Sheridan, was in no way to blame, as the accident apparently arose fro.m Cotton’s own fault in riding on the wrong track and in having no light Eefleetor or white mudguard.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 1 May 1934, Page 4
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