TWO KILLED
MOTOR CYCLE ACCIDENTS
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 15. Two young motor cyclists were kill ed in accidents to-day. At Belfast this evening, Hubert Beattie Stones, aged 17, of Hadley Street, Woolsiou. while riding a motor cycle, met a motor car in a head-on collision, and was -killed instantly. Apparently he .nulled out of the line of traffic to turn a corner, and met the car com ing in the opposite direction. Edward Wilson, a young married man, of Sinclair Street, Noitfi Beach, was motoring on Waimairi Beach in company with R. M. Bickerton. Noticing his companion i-.ul dropped back, Bickerton looked around an,! saw Wilson lying on the sand near Ins machine, the front tyre of which was flat.
It is presumed the bursting of the tyre caused Wilson to lie thrown from his machine, suffering injuries which proved fatal.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1929, Page 5
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