MOTOR-CYCLIST'S DEATH.
RESULT OF COLLISION. [BT TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WANGANUI. Tuesday. At a coroner's inquest held at Waverley, touching the death of a motor-cyclist, Peter Linlay McDonald, who was killed in a collision with a motor-car on Sunday, Alfred Cadmah, driver of the car, stated that within a mile and a-half of Waverley on turning a bend in the road, he saw a motor-cyclist coming down on the wrong side of the road heading for the centre of the car. The motorist swerved to the left, but the cyclist was caught upon the right hand mudguard of the car. Witness immediately slowed up, and one of his passengers, on going back, found deceased still living, but unconscious; and he expired almost immediately. On further examination of the car the driver found one staunchion of the hood broken, and a tuft of hair clinging to it. . The coroner, in giving his verdict, said that no blame was attachable to the driver 01 the car.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18342, 7 March 1923, Page 8
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