FATAL ACCIDENT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11509, 4 October 1915, Page 6

FATAL ACCIDENT.

MOTOR-CYCLE OVERTURNED NEAR WOOEEND. JWATR OF SIXTEKX-V:I:AI{-OL1> LAD. A motor-cycle accident luclt 10suited in the death of a lad sixteen yeans of ago, named. Robert Laskoy, occurred at ten o'clock yohtoid&j morning at a spot about midwaj botwoon Rangiora and. AV oodend, known, as tiio Five Cross Roads. The JshJ, who was the oldest sou of Mr James H. Laskey, labourei, residing on Grim wood's Road. Sotithbrook, was initiating i'or a purchase of a motor-cycle from el young man nauied Victor Mehrtons, and was giving the machine a trial on the Northbrook Road. Jle bad had no experience whatever ot motor-cycle j*iding and after travelling a. short distance ho let the machine away at. a speed ot. over fortv miles an hour. Running, into a dust-Jilled rut bordered with, uii'aso the machine commenced to wobble rnd the tyre wa.-, wrenched off and burst. The*cycle then turned in a half-circle and the rider was roiled a<l istn ntre of about ten or eleven, yards and struck hi* head. 51 r A. (iriiuv.ood, who was driving ::!on;:: the road when i-askey passed him. saw the accident ti'om a distance of about a ({Uai'tcr of a mile and hurryin'i in lhe spot lie Found T.askey unconscious. Seeing that he was badly injured Mr Grim wood put the lod into hi*'trap and convoyed hon with all -peed to Brock !ei>:irst, Hospital. Random. He. wax attended by Dr. T\ ill. who found he had a. badly fractured skull, from which then- was do hope of recover v. occurred about (5 D.HI. The patient bivd a brief interval of covisvio'isne.ss. a.tid told the doctor that, no <n;e hii- him soil" was to hlame for the accident. An inquest was hold this morning, before Mr T. A. IJ. Bailey. H.M.. when a. verdict of accidental was relumed.