CRASH INTO POST

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 972, 15 May 1930, Page 18

CRASH INTO POST

MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED EVIDENCE AT INQUEST From Our Own Correspondent HAMILTON, Wednesday. A verdict of accidental death was returned by the coroner, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., at the inquest today into the circumstances surrounding the death of Ronald Walton Havelock Scott, 21, carpenter, who died in the Waikato Hospital last night, following injuries received in a motor-cycle accident at Tainui Street on Monday. Walter William Scott, father of deceased, said his son had had plenty of experience in riding a motor-cycle, but was not used to the side-chair. Dr. H. C. Barratt, of the Waikato Hospital staff, gave evidence of deceased's injuries, which consisted chiefly of a fracture at the base of the skull. Deceased had not recovered consciousness after admission. Frederick John Pickup, a motormechanic, who was a passenger in the side-chair of the cycle Scott was riding, said the machine was proceeding down the hill when it hit a small" embankment and then apparently collided with a post. Witness was thrown out and was not clear what happened, but he saw Scott lying unconscious about 14ft away. Replying to the coroner, Pickup said the cycle was in second gear at the time and was not speeding. The coroner, in finding that deceased’s death was due to a fractured skull suffered in a motor-cycle accident, remarked that the affair was sad and unfortunate, but purely accidental.