MOTOR CYCLIST’S FATE.

Shannon News, 18 July 1922, Page 3

MOTOR CYCLIST’S FATE.

SHOCKING TRAGEDY NEAR FOXTON

In the gathering darkness of Saturday evening on ■ the outskirts of Foxton, a motor cyclist, Bertram WilliamSpeltnan, aged 24, met a terrible death through colliding with a spring cait. It appears that young Spelman was travelling from Foxton and had reached a point on the Foxton-Pai-merston road about a mile from the borough boundary, when he met a spring cart driven by a young man named Irwin Wright. It was almost dark. Neither cyclist nor cart was showing a light, and apparently the shock of crash was the first intimation either young man had of the presence of danger. Th shaft of the cart struck the unfortunate cyclist, going through his body, and he was carried about a chain before the startled horse was pulled up.

Medical aid and police assistance were despatched as quickly as possible to the scene of the accident, but too late to be of any assistance. Life was extinct. The deceased young man was wellknown in the district. He was a son of MrsJMartin Boyle, of Taikorea, and was in the employ of Mr P. Baldwin, on a farm on Motuiti Road.