KILLED IN COLLISION
VERDICT OF' ACCIDENTAL DEATH
FATALITY AT GREY LYNtt A verdict of accidental death was returned by Mr. IP. IC. Hunt, S.M., coroner, at an inquest held yesterday concerning the death of Bertie Brown, a 14-year-old boy, of 43 Williamson Avenue, Grey Lynn, who died at the Auckland Hospital on May i 4 as the result of injuries received in a collision with a cyclist. Medical evidence stated that Brown was admitted on the evening of May 13 suffering from facial abrasions and a, severe skull injury. He died the following day without regaining consciousness. Thomas Harold Gould, of Point Chevalier, said he was riding a bicycle down Surrey Crescent about G. 30 p.m. on May 13. Immediately after passing a lorry near Sussex Street he felt a bump and was shot over his handlebars and was rendered unconscious. Theodore Wilbur Stites, of 13 Williamson Avenue, said that he and Brown had been following behind a lorry on scooters. One of the men on the lorry shouted to them to “get away.” Brown swerved across to the other side of the road and was hit by the cycle.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 982, 27 May 1930, Page 16
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