SERIES OF MISHAPS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21859, 23 July 1934, Page 14

SERIES OF MISHAPS

CARELESS BOY CYCLIST WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD Three persons received surgical attention at tho Melbourne Hospital lately following a series of mishaps at Burnley. A boy, whose identity is not known, is said to have caused the accident by riding his bicycle on the wrong side of the street.

Leonard Rigg, of Han-thorn, had to swerve his motor-cycle to avoid striking the cyclist. Alan Muir, aged 17, was on the pillion scat, and Frank Stone, aged 32, was in a side-car attached to it. In swerving, Rigg crashed into an iron verandah post outside a fruit shop, snapping it in halves. Tho three persons on tho motor-cycle wero thrown to the footpath. The cyclist fell also, but was not injured. Tho crash startled a horse attached to the fruiterer's delivery cart, which was standing outsido the shop. The horse reared and dragged the cart across the street. This compelled Arthur Phillips, aged 20, who was riding a motor-cycle, carrying a young woman pillion, a few yards behind Rigg, to swerve also. He was unable to avoid running into the cart. Phillips passenger was not injured. The second crash terrified the horse, and it bolted, but it was stopped before it did any damage. Muir, Stone and Phillips suffered minor injuries.