TWO LIVES THROWN AWAY
EXCESSIVE SPEED CRAZE
TERRIFIC PACE OF MOTOR-CYCLE. COLLISION AT DANGEROUS BEND. . By Telegraph.-—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. ‘Two more young lives have been thrown away through this excessive craze for’speed,” commented the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., at an inquest- into the deaths of William Antony Wyvill Thompson, aged 20, and Florence H-. McDonald, aged 16, who died from injuries received following a collision between a motor-cycle •they were riding and a stationary motor truck in New North Road on October 29. A verdict of accidental death was return ed in each case. ‘The speed of the motor-cycle »was terrific,” said Archibald Alfred Leman.” I think he was travelling too fast to negotiate a dangerous bend such as, there is at the point where the accident happened. Witness also said that the force of the collision sent the motor truck forward.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1930, Page 9
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