LOSS OF TWO LIVES.
RESULT OF ROAD COLLISION. CYCLIST AND PILLION RIDER. [by telegraph.—press association.] WELLINGTON, Monday. The inquest was held to-day into the deaths of the motor-cyclist, Alexander Basil Claude Davenport, aged 19, of Palmerstcin North, and the pillion rider, Albert, Arthur Iloskins, as a result of a collision with a motor-car driven by Edward Windrum, on April 22. Evidence showed that the car was proceeding toward Wellington from the direction of Palmerston North on the correct side of the road and a motor-cycle was approaching it, also on the correct side. Davenport drove up from behind the motor-cycle with the intention of passing it, but a collision with the car resulted.
" It is not very apparent," said the coroner, Air. I. Salek, '' that the speed of tlie motor-cycle was excessive, but it is not good judgment to pass another machine near a bend."
A formal finding was returned. Davenport was instantly killed and Hoskins died a§ a result of his injuries.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20864, 5 May 1931, Page 12
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