MOTOR-CYCLIST'S FATE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19542, 22 January 1927, Page 10

MOTOR-CYCLIST'S FATE.

THE KOHIMARAMA FATALITY. PROTECTIVE RAILING NEEDED. CAR-DRIVER WHO DID NOT STOP. Comment on the lack of a protective railing along the seaward side of the Es- • planade at. Kohimarama was made yes-, terday by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., coroner, at the conclusion of an inquest regarding the death of Henry Alfred James Noon,, aged 22, a member of the Remuera Fire Brigade, who died in the Auckland l Hospital on December 31 as a result of a fall from a motor-cycle at Ivohiraarama 'two days previously. Mr. Hunt said he thought, the attention of the Tamaki Road Board should be drawn to,the matter and that the board should consider the advisability of erecting a protective railing. ! William Waiter Edgerley, schoolmaster, said that shortly after 8 p.m. on December 29 he was sitting on the Esplanade Kohimarama, when a motor-car with extremely dazzling headlights came toward him. A motor-cycle ridden by deceased camo toward the car, keeping far over to his own side, evidently to avoid the glare. The cycle struck the ferro-concrete kerbing of the Esplanade close to a stone roadway leading down to the beach, and deceased- was hurled down on to the roadway. The accident happened immediately beneath an electric light standard, but the light was not burning at the time. The motorist, who was travelling in the opposite direction to deceased, did not stop, although he must have seen that something was wrong. His callousness was disgraceful.

After other evidence had been heard' the coroner returned a verdict of' accidental death.