FATAL MOTOR COLLISION

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1930, Page 9

FATAL MOTOR COLLISION

WELLINGTON PILLION RIDER DIES.

Ey Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A collision between a motor-cycle and a taxi at the intersection of Tasman Street and Rugby Street this evening resulted in the death of a pillion-rider hi the Wellington hospital shortly afterwards. Tho taxi, driven by Byron Maurice Barclay, was proceeding up Rugby Street when it struck the motor-cycle as the latter was travelling along Tasman Street in a southerly direction. The driver of the machine was Selwyn Morris Bingham, a married man who Eves at 82 Constable Street, and his companion was Walter Pederson, 98 Tasman Street. Both men were employed in the coalyard of Samuel Brown, Lt<i. x v Immediately after the accident both injured men were 'taken to the public hospital by the driver of the taxi. Pederson died shortly after admission from severe head injuries. Tho other man, suffering from shock and abrasions to the face and knees, was discharged later in the evening after havin'* received medical attention. Neither of°the vehicles was extensively damaged, the cycle having its front wheel buckled. The accident occurred just after's.3o p.m.