PILLION RIDING
A DANGEROUS PRACTICE COMMENT BY CORONER. (Peb United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 11. “This is an accident that shows the danger of two-whcelcd machines—motor cycles and bicycles—carrying passengers, either on the back of the motor cycle or on the bar of the bicycle,” said Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M. (coroner), in returning a verdict of accidental death at the inquest on Emily Rix, a married woman, aged 47, who died in the Christchurch Hospital on April 25. She was admitted on April 22 suffering from head injuries received when her husband’s bicycle, on which she was riding as a passenger ou the bar, came into collision with a motor cycle ridden by Max Cashmere Couzins, who was carrying a pillion rider. The coroner added that it was an unfortunate accident. The motor cyclist was not to blame. When motor cycles or bicycles carried pillion , riders they could not be handled as they were meant to be. It impaired facility in handling.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22260, 12 May 1934, Page 11
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