A TRAGIC SEQUENCE.
MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED ON ANNIVERSARY OP BROTHER’S SIMILAR DEATH.
SIDECAR PASSENGER INJURED,
(Bj Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 234.
Through a motor cycle and side-ear in which they were riding overturning ,as the result of a collision with a cyclist in Woolstoh last evening, Cecil Clive Middleton, aged 25, of New Brighton, "was killed, and Inspector S. .Napper, of the Heathcote County Coun♦ll, was slightly injured.
Middleton was a son of Mr C. T. .Middleton, Town Clerk of New Brighton,. By a tragic coincidence, Mr Middleton lost his other son in a motor cycle accident on tire same night last year.
When the motor cycle was righted last evening, Middleton was found to be dead. Inspector Napper suffered a fractured nose and facial abrasions. The cyclist, Sydney Virtue, escaped with Slight injuries.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 February 1932, Page 5
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