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Bank Holiday Tragedy – Kilnhurst Cyclist’s Fall in Front of Car.

August 1929

Mexborough and Swinton Times August 16, 1929

Bank Holiday Tragedy.

Kilnhurst Cyclist’s Fall in Front of Car.

A Kilnhurst cyclist was the subject of an inquest at Doncaster yesterday by Mr. W. Bagshaw. He was George Frederick Wilkinson (25), of 16, Meadow View, Kilnhurst, who was fatally injured on the road near Tickhill station on Monday.

George Edward Wilkinson, father of deceased, said his son was employed at Thrybergh Hall Colliery. He left home on Monday morning to go to Tickhill Sports. He had ridden a cycle for a number of years and was an expert rider.

Thomas Brook, miner, also employed at Thrybergh Hall Colliery, and living at 17, Piccadilly, Swinton, said that on Monday about 8-30 p.m. he was riding a tandem cycle with his brother Ernest, returning from Tickhill Sports along Tickhill Road. They were pacing deceased who was on a racing cycle, and were going about twelve miles an hour.

They had just passed the Tickhill station bridge and were going down the slope when witness pulled out to overtake two cyclists. He was turning in again when he felt a bump at the rear of the machine. At the same time a motor car approached them. It was on the proper side and was being driven at a reasonable speed. Immediately after he had felt the bump he heard a crash and when he went back to see what had happened he found deceased lying across the road. The motor car had been pulled up about twenty yards away. It was getting dusk. He could not say whether the car carried deceased at all. He should say the car was pulled up as soon as possible. One of the occupants of the car went back and enquired about the deceased and witness told him he ought to be taken to the Infirmary. He was then told that the driver of the car, had fainted immediately after the accident. Deceased was taken to Doncaster                by another motorist, but on arrival at the infirmary was dead.