STREET FATALITY

Southland Times, Issue 19347, 12 September 1924, Page 6

STREET FATALITY

KILLED BY CYCLIST.

AN UNUSUAL ACCIDENT. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 11. At- the inquest touching the death of Albert Edward Hollway, following on injuries resulting from a collision with a boy cyclist in Grey street, an eye-witness said that he saw a man walking across the roadway, and the cyclist, who was coming along in the ordinary way, sounded a warning. The bicycle struck the man below the knee and he fell. The boy lost his balance and also fell. The boy, Ronald Roper, according to the police evidence, stated that as he approached the street intersection a motor car was going in the opposite direction, ana deceased, who was walking across, Stopp’s! as if to allow the car to pass. The boy continued along the middle of the road, and when almost opposite the man, the latter moved forward quickly, stepping in front of the bicycle. Before the boy could stop he had run into the man and had fallen off the machine. He had been riding a bicycle for three years. Ronald Roper, the boy who was riding the bicycle which knocked deceased down, said his machine struck the deceased lightly on the right leg. The impact did not carry him past where Hollway fell. Deceased was watching a passing motor-car. The Coroner, in returning a verdict that deceased died from a fractured skull received through being knocked down by a bicycle ridden by Roper, remarked that it was an accident likely to happen once in a thousand times. At the rate the man was walking and the boy riding no one would expect an accident to happen. In the great majority cf cases the bicycle would have struck the man and he would not have been knocked down. It must have caught him off his balance.