YOUTH KILLED.
FELL UNDER TRUCK. TERRIBLE INJURIES RECEIVED. YOUNG CYCLIST'S PATE. [By Telegraph.—Press Association] AUCKLAND, June 18. Palling under the wheels of a motor truck after he had struck a stationary motor-car, John Aislabie, aged 18, of Rcmuera, was killed instantly. Aislabie was cycling towards the city about 8.30 a.m. in a long line of traffic and struck a car which pulled into tho kerb in front of him. Following behind the cyclist was a loaded motor truck driven by a Chinese market gardener. The wheel passed over tho youth's body, causing terrible injuries, Spectators said the accident happened in a few swift seconds, and that there Avas no chance of the driver preventing it.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 18 June 1937, Page 3
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