A FATAL COLLISION
young man killed.
A fatal accident occurred about 10 minutes past 5 yesterday afternoon opposite the George Street School, when a young man named Alfred Tennyson Moss, who was riding a bicycle, collided with a tramcar and received terrible injuries, from which he died.
Car No. 24 left the Gardens hound for St. Clair at 5.6 p.m., and after leaving Duke street the motorman saw a cyclist coming in the opposite direction. It is stated that when about one and a-half car lengths away the cyclist left his proper side of the road and swerved on to the other tram track, evidently with the intention of giving a motor cycle and side car coming behind him a clear passage. He had, however, failed to recognise that a tramcar was bearing down on him, and did not hear the warning gong. The motorman applied the brakes, and in the last second the cyclist seemed cognisant of his danger, for he made an attempt to swing clear. His effort proved futile, and the bicycle wobbling, he rode into the lefthand corner of the car, and was flung violently to the ground, receiving injuries which rendered him unconscious.
These are the facts of the fatality as investigated by the tramway authorities, and they are borne out by the statements of independent witnesses, who assert that it would have been impossible for the motorman to avoid the accident. The ambulance was sent, for, and the injured man taken to the Hospital, but he died snoitly after admission.
Deceased was a foreman in the employ of Coopers, Ltd., and had been working on a job at Anderson Bay. He was only about 22 years of age, and resided with his widowed mother in Frame sheet, North-east Valley.
Deceased's most serious injury appeal’s to have been a fracture of the skull. The inquest will probably be held to-morrow. -Evening Star, 2/12/1913.
Deaths
MOSS. — On December 1, at Dunedin Hospital (accidentally), Alfred Tennyson, youngest son of the late E. M. Moss, Portobello; aged 21 years Deeply mourned. -Otago Daily Times, 3/12/1913.
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