“VALUABLE LIFE LOST THROUGH SPEEDING”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 396, 3 July 1928, Page 16

“VALUABLE LIFE LOST THROUGH SPEEDING”

MOTOR-CYCLIST’S DEATH Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. “The accident is one of those which occur all too regularly, in which a valuable young life is lost through excessive speeding.” This was the opinion of the corone Mr. E. D. Mosley, in returning his verdict at the inquest concerning the death of George Jonathan Pine, a young man *v. , ‘*o died from injuries rewhen the motor-cycle h* Wa, riding crashed imo lorry on the Main South Road in Upper Riccarton on June 25. Medical evidenc va> given that Pine was admitted to the Public Hospital deeply unconscious. There were

signs of a fracture of the skull, wrists were broken and there tensive burning on the face, chest *** legs. Deceased died a few hours admission, the cause of death coma, following a fracture of the associated with heart failure caused shock and injuries received. Robert Benjamin Giles said that the morning of the accident he coming out of the yard of his e ployer on Riccarton Road in a nao truck. Pine, who was travelling the bitumen, struck witness’s head-on and the motor-cycle bur* l flames. The cycle was travelling, from 40 to 45 miles an hour. 'j. 1 oB thought deceased did not account of the morning sun glisw on the bitumen surface. [ The verdict was in accordance the medical evidence.