CYCLIST'S DEATH
STRUCK BY MOTOR-CAR EVIDENCE AT INQUEST [from our own correspondent] MORRINSVILLE, Tuesday A fatal accident on Kiwitahi Road, three miles from Morrinsville, on the evening of Saturday, February 11, as a result of which Alfred Kcrcru Bidois, a farmhand, aged 17, died two days later in the Waikato Hospital, was investigated at the inquest concluded before Mr. F. W. Platts, coroner, at Morrinsville. Bidois was riding a cycle into Morrinsville in company with two young men. He was struck by a motorcar driven by Harold George Howie, farmer, of Kiwitahi. The coroner commented that the evidence made it clear that deceased's death was caused by deceased swinging his bicycle across the road to his incorrect side of the road in front of an oncoming car. The coroner's finding was that deceased, Alfred Kereru Bidois, died from injuries sustained when the bicycle lie was riding near Morrinsville was struck by a motor-car driven by H. G. Howie.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23290, 8 March 1939, Page 16
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158CYCLIST'S DEATH New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23290, 8 March 1939, Page 16
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