DEATH OF CYCLIST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 15

DEATH OF CYCLIST

COLLISION WITH LORRY NO ONE HELD TO BLAME A verdict of accidental death was returned by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., coroner, at the adjourned inquest yesterday afternoon concerning the death of Edward Charles Fitzgerald Nolan, aged 53, who received head injuries on September 10 as a result of a collision between the bicycle he was riding and a petrol lorry at the intersection of Ivhyber Pass and Park Road. He died in the Auckland Hospital two days later. Evidence was given at the inquest by Leslie McLaren, driver of the lorry, who said that he had just turned his lorry from Khyber Pass into Park Road when a bicycle, ridden by deceased, came down Xhyber*Pass at a fair speed and crashed into the side of the vehicle. Witness considered deceased was wholly to blame for the accident. The lQrry was right in Park l{oad when the collision occurred.

Eye-witnesses to the accident also expressed the opinion that the lorry driver v:as in no way responsible for the collision.'as the cyclist swerved off the main road into the entrance of Park Road. Constable Henry, examined the bicycle after the impact, said the machine had only one brake, which was defective, and almost useless in an emergency. The coroner returned a verdict that deceased died from head injuries received when his bicycle accidentally collided with a motor-lorry. No blame, he said, could be attached to the driver of the lorry.