EASE OF HANDLING IMPAIRED
BICYCLES CARRYING PASSENGERS. FATAL CHRISTCHURCH ACCIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, May 11. “This is an accident that shows the danger Of two-wheeled machines motor-cycles and bicycles—carrying passengers either on the back of a motorcycle or the bar of a bicycle,” said Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., coroner, when returning a verdict of accidental death at an inquest on Emily Rix, married, aged 47, who died in tire Christchurch hospital on April 25. ' She was admitted on April 22 suffering from ' head injuries received when her husband’s bicycle, on which she was riding as a passenger on the bar, came into collision with a motor-cycle ridden by Max Cashmere Couzins, who was carrying a pillion-'rider. The coroner added that it was an unfortunate accident. 'She motorcyclist was not to blame. Whan motorcycles or bicycles carried pillion riders they could not be handled as they were meant to be. It impaired 'the facility of handling.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1934, Page 9
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