BICYCLE DANGERS.
Bicycle accidents continue. Sydney has had a sad fatality in the death of the lad Carruthers, son of the Minister for Lands. He was returning from some school sports in the evening when he collided wjth a cart. The shaft struck him in the chest, and he lay for half an hour without assistance. He died next morning. He seems to have been travelling at such speed that he could not pull up when he saw the cart. A Baptist clergyman at Ballarat, the Rev. J. A. Soper, has had a narrow escape from death. He had cycled down a hill at the foot of which was a creek with a wooden bridge across it. On the bridge his wheel skidded, and he fell into the creek. When assistance came he was lying unconscious in the water, with concussion of the brain. Happily he is now out of danger. Professor Marshall Hall, the gentleman whose verses have got him into trouble with the Melbourne University, is also laid up as the result of a bicycle fall. His machine got away with him on a hill, and he was thrown amongst a lot of stones. He is rather seriously hurt.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 11
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