PILLION-RIDER KILLED
MOTOR-CYCLIST ACQUITTED not guilty of negligence Press Association . CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. Trevor Walter Moss was charged In the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Adams this morning with negligently driving a motor-cycle on Woodham Road and thereby causing the death of Margaret O’Connor. The were that a firm of sewerage contractors were making a sewer connection in Woodham Road. The work was not finished and there was a quantity of spoil lying on either .side of a trench. Accused came along the road at a good speed, ran into the spoil and jumped 20 feet across the trench. The girl was thrown off the carrier and some time after died in hospital. Accused had no light but had a torch strapped on the handlebars. e
The jury returned a verdict of not ;uilty.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 439, 22 August 1928, Page 13
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