FATAL COLLISION
CORONER'S COMMENTS
(B7 Telegraph—Press". Association.) ■- CHEISTCHUECH; This Day. A finding that death was due to gas gangrene, as the result, of infection after injuries in an accident, was returned by the Coroner (Mr. E.D. Mosley, S.M.), at the' inquest into' the death of Percy Eeynolds Philpott, aged 20, a motor-cyclist. ■• Philpott, said :the Coroner, was injured in a'collision between his motorcycle, on the correct side of the Main North Eoad, on January 30, and a mo.tor-car driven by James McGivern, a retired farmer, on the incorrect side. "I am quite satisfied from the evidence that the motor-car driven by McGivern should not have been.in a*position to place , the deceased in peril," the Coroner said."The road was a beautifully straight one for about three-quar-ters of a mile. In this case a motorcar -was travelling at 25 miles an hour, and another car pulled out and tried to pass it, and the motor-cycle-was seen about eight chains away. There was a collision, and it was entirely due to the fact that McGivern pulled but and did not take steps to avert it by dropping behind." . :
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 62, 14 March 1934, Page 11
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185FATAL COLLISION Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 62, 14 March 1934, Page 11
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