COLLISION WITH CAR HAS FATAL TERMINATION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18013, 25 November 1926, Page 1

COLLISION WITH CAR HAS FATAL TERMINATION.

CYCLIST STRUCK BY MOTORIST IN VICTORIA STREET LAST EVENING. Through colliding with a motor car in Victoria Street last evening, Charles Nelson, a married man, aged sixty, residing at 377, St. Asaph Street, was badly injured and died in the hospital at 3 a.m. to-day. The accident happened short! y after five o’clock. Nelson was riding a C3'de and had just emerged from the gates of Bishopscourt when he was struck by a car driven by Arthur Howard Murray. Nelson was caught on the radiator of the car and was crushed between it and the wall of Cooper and Pryce’s factory. Just before the accident occurred three motors were following each other up Victoria Street in the direction of Pcpanui. The first car went to turn into the doorway of Cooper and Pryce’s workshop (on the right-hand side of the road) and one of the other cars passed it on its left-hand side. The other, that driven by Murray, successfully passed the first car, on the righthand side, but collided with Nelson, who was crossing the road on his bicycle in order to get on to his correct side to come to the city. When the cyclist’ was hit, he was carried on* the radiator of the car across the footpath and against the wall of Cooper and Pryce’s factory. The wall was pushed in four inches. The car then glanced off the wall and shot through the open doorway of the factory, coming to a stop in front of a machine wfcere an employee was working. The employee lifted Nelson off the car arfd he was taken to the hospital. An inquest will be opened to-day.