EXCESSIVE SPEED.
CAUSE OF MOTOR FATALITY. By Ttlejrraph—Pra«* Aimoelatloii. CHRISTCHURCH, July 2. “This is another case —they are all too frequent—of excessive speed leading to an accident. This young man’s death was entirely due to the speed at which he was travelling, and to his vision being affected by the sun.” The foregoing comment was made bv the Coroner at the conclusion or the : inquest into the death of George 1 Jonathan Pine, a young motor-cyclist, jwho died after he had collided with a motor lorry on llicca-rton Road ou June 251,hi After the collision, the motor-cycle petrol tank fired, and Pine suffered terrible injuries from burns, also a fractured skull and other severe hurts. Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., added that Pine must have been travelling at fortv miles an hour at the least.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17999, 3 July 1928, Page 9
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135EXCESSIVE SPEED. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17999, 3 July 1928, Page 9
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