CYCLIST’S DEATH

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18614, 9 July 1930, Page 5

CYCLIST’S DEATH

COMMENT BY CORONER. By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH. July 8. An adjourned inquest into the death of William Frederick Irving, who died at 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 badlysmashed bicycle. Witnesses gave evidence of two motor-lorries having passed over the road shortly before Irving was found in a dying condition. One witness. Herbert Edward Brandon. said that he heard a sound as of a bicycle being struck; that the driver of the truck seemed to release his accellerator, and then went on again. Witness concluded when the lorry went on that nothing untoward had happened. Neville Clarence Bell and Trevor Henry Suckell, both drivers of motortrucks belonging to Bell and Sons, Akaroa, gave evidence. Both said that they had passed over the road at about the time of the accident. Both denied having seen a cyclist or struck a cyclist. After Suckell had given evidence, the Coroner said: “From the evidence of 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, and he returned an open verdict.