SPEEDING CAR CRASHES INTO MOTORCYCLE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3783, 24 April 1928, Page 2

SPEEDING CAR CRASHES INTO MOTORCYCLE.

RIDER KILLED & MACHINE

Wrecked.

MOTORIST CONTINUES WIT'H-

OUT STOPPING.

Christchurch, April 22.

A callous motorist crashed into a motor-cycle and side-car near Adhburton with terrific force on Saturday night, killing the rider and wrecking the machine, but he never stopped to render any assistance, continuing his furious pace down the road and leaving the victim lying on the roadside dead. The victim of the smash was Rowland Bedford, 23 years of age, who resided at 159 Cox Street, Ashburton, and efforts to trace the driver have so far proved fruitless. Bedford, who was accompanied by a young man named Johnston, was riding a motor-cycle with' sidecar attached, and was coming towards Ashburton from Rakaia. When about a mile on the Chertsey side of the Dromore road he was just about to pass over a culvert at a slightly narrower part of the road, and a motor-car, which had run out of petrol, had just slowed up within two yards of him, when another car, driven at a furious pace, dashed around and past the 4ar which was slowing up, crashed into the motor-cycle and side-car, hurling the rider and occupant out, and continued its journey without stopping, leaving Bedford dead; Johnston .miraculously escaped juryBedford’s injuries were terrible, his head being completely crushed, his neck broken, a boot torn off, lacerating his foot and leg, and his clothing was almost torn completely off his body. Death was instantaneous. The motor-cycle was a complete wreck. , So far as can be ascertained, the police have; no definite person in view as to the driver of the ear, !but an. arrest is expected shortly.