CYCLIST KILLED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22853, 7 October 1937, Page 10

CYCLIST KILLED

COLLISION WITH CAR ACCIDENT IN NEWMARKET MOTORISTS CUT BY GLASS Injuries which proved fatal three hours later were suffered by Mr. .Tames Michael, aged 61, widower, of 6 Roxburgh Street, Newmarket, when his bicycle was involved in a collision with a motor-car near the junction of Gillies Avenue and Eden Street, Newmarket, about 4.15 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Mr. Michael, who was a qiiarrvman, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital with head injuries, "and died early in the evening.

Mr. Michael was cycling home when the collision occurred. His machine and a motor-car driven by Mr. Alfred Patten, farmer, of Waiuliu, collided, and the cyclist was thrown heavily against, the ear, and then to the ground. He was taken to hospital in a St. John ambulance.

Both Mr. Patten and a passenger who was riding in the front seat of his car, a small model, were slightly cut bv glass from the broken windscreen. They, did not require medical attention. ~ An inquest concerning Mr. Michael s death will be opened to-day by the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt.