YOUTH KILLED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23413, 1 August 1939, Page 8

YOUTH KILLED

CRASH INTO A TRUCK MOTOR-CYCLE RIDER ACCIDENT AT BIRKDALE COMPANION SLIGHTLY HURT Head injuries from which he died a few hours later were suffered by '« motor-cyclist in a collision with a stationary motor-truck at Birkdale' early last evening. The victim vras:—> Ivor Percival Fryer, aged 18, a garage attendant, son of Mr. and Mrs, J, J. Fryer, of 71 Puriri Avenue, Beachhaven. '

The youth was riding Ih'r motor-cycle along Victoria Street' West, and crashed into the back of "She stand* ing truck. A pillion-rider on the cycle James Henry Athol Pilcher, aged 16 of Tui Crescent, Beachhaven, was only slightly hurt and was able to go home after receiving attention "at the scene othe accident.

The noise of the collision was heart, by the occupants of a near by hous'ii When they rushed outside they found Fryer lying on the roadway, suffering from injuries apparently caused when lie was catapulted over the handle-bars of his machine into the back of the truck. The motor-cycle was extensively damaged.

Dr. K. H. Holdgate,|t)f Birkenhead, was called, and he attended the youth until an ambulance aijjrvot l .. Constable C. Snow, of BirkeijScad, was also summoned by the people who heard the collision. 5

A St. John ambulance was sent to the North Shore from the city and the injured motor-cyclist was rushed to the Auckland Hospital in a very serious condition. He did not ra'ly, j.nd died just before midnight. -