SEQUEL TO FATAL HILLCREST SMASH
INQUEST AT HAMILTON (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. An inquest on the two young: men, Walter Thornton Reynolds, aged 27, and John Ward, 25, who were killed in a collision with a car at Hillcrest about two miles from Hamilton, on October 15, opened this morning: before the coroner, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M. According to the evidence deceased were proceeding to Matangi on a motor-cycle when the collision occurred with a motor-car. After the accident, it was found that Reynolds was suffering from a fractured skull and a compound fracture of the right thigh. He was unconscious and dying. Ward was already dead, having received a fractured skull, and a compound .fracture of the right leg. The motor-cycle on which the two deceased had been riding was lying in the roadway. One wheel-mark of a car was plainly defined, four feet from the edge of the road. The wheelmarks seemed to be of a fast-moving heavy vehicle. (Proceeding.)
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 195, 7 November 1927, Page 9
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