BOY CYCLIST'S DEATH
COMMENT BY CORONER [by telegraph—PßESS association] WELLINGTON, "Wednesday "This should bo a lesson to youngsters riding bicycles not to take corners at too great a speed," remarked the coroner at the inquest to-day into the death of William Pearce Rigg, aged 12, who died in hospital on April 9 after receiving severe injuries when his bicycle collided with a motor-lorrv at an intersection. The coroner said that tho evidence showed that the boy was on the wrong side of the road. No blame was attachable to the driver of the motor-lorry.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21471, 20 April 1933, Page 8
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