CYCLIST'S DEATH
OVERTAKEN BY CAR CORONER'S STRONG COMMENT (Per United Press Association) NELSON, May 16. The coroner's verdict at the inquest into the death of Hilda Irene Webby, a cyclist, who was killed at Hope by an overtaking motor car, was that the deceased died from a fracture of the skull and laceration of the brain, such injuries being received by being run down, while riding a bicycle, by a car driven by John Leonard Hall. The coroner (Mr T. E. Maunsell. S.M.) added that he was not going to say there was no evidence of negligence or any evidence of negligence, but, if there was no negligence, it was a disouicting state of affairs if a cyclist' who was complying with the regulations and having a red refector and a painted mudguard should be killed in this manner.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23810, 17 May 1939, Page 6
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