BOY CYCLIST’S DEATH
WRONG SIDE OF ROAD (Per Pross Association.) WELLINGTON’, last night. "This should be a lesson to youngsters riding bicycles not to take corners at too great a speed,” remarked tlie coroner, at the inquest to-day into the death of William Pearce Rigg, 12. Rigg died in hospital on April 9 alter receiving severe injuries when his bicycle collided vvith a motor lorry-at an inter section the previous day. Tlie. coroner said the evidence showed that the boy was oil the wrong side of the road. No blame was attachable to the driver of tho motor lorry.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18068, 20 April 1933, Page 9
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99BOY CYCLIST’S DEATH Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18068, 20 April 1933, Page 9
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