SERIES OF DELAYS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 52, 25 November 1926, Page 12

SERIES OF DELAYS

FATAL MOTOR-CYCLE ACCIDENT.

Dominion Special.

Dunedin November 24

’Through confusion of messages and .misunderstanding there was delay in getting to hospital Harold Vincent Harrison, a young man who was fatally injured by being flung from his motorcycle at Otokia on November 16, but the Coroner (Mr. J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.) pointed out at the inquest that this had no bearing on the fatal result of the accident. The young man belonged to Christchurch. After lengthy evidence had been heard, the Coroner said that as far as the actual injuries were concerned, it was clear that deceased was travelling at an excessive speed, and came to grief at a corner. One matter investigated- was the somewhat unfortunate delay in getting the man to hospital At the scene of the accident Dr. Sutli-/ erland did all that was possible for a man in the deceased’s condition and told the porter to get the man on a goods train that was to leave soon for Dunedin. The train was late and the porter deemed it wise to get a doctor from Mosgiel, not knowing that Dr. Sutherland was a medical man. The Mosgiel "doctor was delayed,, and the porter did not put the injured man on the train, but waited for the medical man to come. By this time the train had gone and the ambulance had been sent for. Through a confusion of messages the ambulance was delayed. As it turned out the delay had no bearing 011 the result; deceased’s position and his chances were not affected at all. The verdict would be that death was due to injury received from an accidental fall from the motor-cycle.