VERDICT AT INQUEST
DEATH OF CYCLIST. I Per Pref- Association.] NELSON, May 13. The coroner’s verdict at the inquest into the death of Hilda- Irene Webby, cyclist, who was killed at Hope by an overtaking motor-car, was that the deceased died from a fracture of the skull and laceration of the brain, such injuries being sustained by being run down, while riding a bicycle, by a car driven by John Leonard Hall. The coroner, Mr. T. E. Maunsell, added that he was not going to say that there was no evidence of negligence, but if there was no negligence it was a disquieting state of affairs if a cyclist, complying with the regulations, and having a red reflector and painted mudguard, should be killed in this manner
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 114, 17 May 1939, Page 8
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