MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED
RUN OVER BY CAR DRIVER DOES NOT STOP (Per Proas Association.) CHRISTCHURCTI, last night, Rowland Bedford, 23, was killed by being struuk and run over by a motor car near Ashburton on Saturday night. Bedford, riding a motor cycle with another young man named Johnston in a side-car, was going from Raloaia to Ashburton, and about- eight miles from Ashburton a motor car, driven at a furious pace, lore past another car which was slowing up, and crashed, into the motor cycle. The car continued oil its journey without stopping, leaving Bedford dead on the reach Johnston escaped injury.
Bedford's injuries wore dreadful. His head was crashed, his neck broken, his hoot torn and log and foot lacerated. Death was instantaneous.
It is stated that the police hope to make an arrest shortly, and that the car was a stolen one.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16628, 23 April 1928, Page 3
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