BOY CYCLIST'S DEATH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22378, 26 March 1936, Page 16

BOY CYCLIST'S DEATH

STRUCK BY MOTOR-CAR WARNING FROM CONSTABLE The inquest into the death of George Robert Dale Bebbington, aged* 12, who was knocked from his bicycle by a motor-car at Papakura on January 13 and died in the Auckland Hospital on February 10, was continued before Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., coroner, yesterday. Deceased was a son of Mr. E. C. Bebbington, of 8 Queen Street, Papakura.

The driver of the car, Walter AJfred Partridge, said that at about 3.50 p.m. he was driving along the Great South Road at between 30 and 35 miles an hour. At the south end of Papakura he saw a boy on a bicycle, and when the boy was a car's length away he swerved without warning to the right. Witness swerved and applied his brakes, but tho car hit the boy. Another witness, Alfred August Harrison, said he saw two schoolboys riding backward and forward on the road. Decoased had turned sharply to the right an( l the driver of the car did not have a chance of avoiding him. Constublo Holland said that only a few days before the accident he had warned several boys, including deceased, of th.e danger of riding recklessly. He had been seen twisting and turning on the road. The inquest was adjourned until today to enable medical evidence to bo heard.