CRASH HELMETS
USE BY MOTOR CYCLISTS ADVICE BY CORONER (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. “It took me 20 years to get the authorities to put a wire guard on Grafton Bridge and it looks as though it will take me another 20 years to get motor cyclists to realise the benefit of wearing crash helmets,” said the city coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., during an inquest on a motor-cyclist, Peter Bradford Grant, a labourer, aged 23. who died in hospital on August 27 from head injuries caused the previous day when he ran into a car driven by Ernest E. Neumegan, j on Great North road. Neumegan said that after giving j the usual signals lie was making a j slow turn into the road leading to Titirangi. When lie was about the I centre of the road the motor-cycle j approached at fast speed. There was | ample room to pass at the rear or in 1 front of the car, but the cycle hit the j car. The cyclist was thrown heavily | and was sent to hospital. The coroner’s verdict was that death was due to injuries caused by an j accidental collision with a car.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20065, 11 October 1939, Page 6
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199CRASH HELMETS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20065, 11 October 1939, Page 6
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