MOTOR-CYCLIST PITCHED INTO RIVER, KILLED

Wanganui Chronicle, 26 December 1950, Page 4

MOTOR-CYCLIST PITCHED INTO RIVER, KILLED

Christchurch, Last Night ipa>. —A young man died from injuries received when a motor- z cle he was driving left the road at a bend on Richardson Terrace, Woolston, at 7.25 p.m. on Sunday. He was James Bell, aged 17 years, of 5 Trafalgar Street, St. Albans. The motor-cycle skidded in grass at the side of the road and travelled on into the Heathcote River. Bell and a young woman who was on the pillion, were pulled out of the river by Mr C. Haigh, of 160 Richardson Terrace, who saw the accident. Bell suffered a severe fracture of the skull end died soon afterwards. It is thought he struck his head on a willow tree before falling into the river. The pillion rider, Colleen Mowat, of 96 Hawford Street, Opawa, was treated at the outpatients’ department of the Christchurch Public Hospital for cuts and abrasions.