CYCLIST KILLED ON ROAD

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1930, Page 9

CYCLIST KILLED ON ROAD

AN OPEN VERDICT RETURNED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. The adjourned inquest into the death of William Frederick Irving, who died on Lincoln Road on the evening of June 13 from injuries evidently- sustained by being struck by a motor vehicle, was concluded before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., to-day. Beside Irving’s body lay a badly smashed bicycle. Witnesses gave evidence of two motorlorries having passed over the read shortly before Irving was found in a dying condition. One witness, Herbert Edward Brandon, said that he heard the sound as of a bicycle being struck, and that the driver of the truck seemed to release his accelerator and then go on again. Witness concluded that when the lorry went on that nothing untoward had happened. Neville Clarence Bell and Trevor Henry Buckell, both drivers of motor trucks belonging to Bell and Sons, Akaroa, gave evidence. Both had passed over the road at about the time of the acident. Both denied having • seen a cyclist or struck one. After Buckell had given evidence the coroner said: “From the evidence of the witness Brandon it appears that either your lorry or Bell’s caused the accident, and I don’t think it was Bell’s.” The coroner said there was not sufficient evidence to bring in a verdict free from doubt. He returned an open verdict.