CYCLIST’S DEATH

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20738, 23 February 1939, Page 13

CYCLIST’S DEATH

EVIDENCE OF DRINKING SPEED OF 60 MILES PER HOUR <By Telegraph.— Special to Times* Special to Times, PUTARURU, Wednesday • ■ n i! .hi ac< . t-'ie 1 ir.ju- tt-dorti.i Highway at Inpapa on bec-miier 2i. is, uhen Henry *ii;aiu.s 35 , a ijimiuvr cmploxed l*v the M.itainata County Council ‘ at T- 'U. fell li-in iiir> motor-cycle and rece.ved fatal injuries. \sas heard at the in quest which opened to-day before Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M. Tuu Dalziell Paipa, a Maori, said he Riet Williams at Tirau on December i 24. lie could see Williams had been I drinking but considered he was in a j At state to his motor-cycle. I Later he set out from Tirau on tiie | pillion seat of the machine with Wil- j liams riding. An accident with an approach- j Ing car had been narrowly avoided when the machine was travelling at 60 miles an hour. Deceased slackened speed after this but when rounding a corner near the Waimakariri Stream bridge a • tyre burst and the machine swer- | ved to the right. Constable T. J. Cotter, of Putaruru. i said when he arrived at the scene of the accident deceased was lyinp on ] the road unconscious. He was later ; taken to the Waikato Hospital where j he died four days later. The inquest was adjourned to j Hamilton for the purpose of hearing 1 the evidence of Dr. J. K. F. Watson, of the Waikato Hospital.