Crash after Dance Print E-mail
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Motor Cyclist Killed.
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AND PEDESTRIAN SERIOUSLY
INJURED
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Embleton Road Accident.
 

Mr. R. W. MARLEY, deputy coroner for West Cumberland, held an inquest at the Embleton Quarry Company’s offices on Saturday evening concerning the death of George Thomas SISSON, aged 21, a farm servant, of Hall Farm, Bassenthwaite, whose home address is Kirkland Grove, Bothel, and who met his death shortly after 3-30 a.m. on Saturday morning as he was motor cycling to Bassenthwaite after a village dance in the Public Hall at Embleton.
 
 
He was identified by his uncle, James SISSON, a milk recorder, of Redmain, who stated that the young man had good eyesight and did not wear spectacles.
 
 
Mr. Diana GREENUP, of Hoe Close, Embleton, said that she had been to the dance at the Public Hall, and shortly after three o’clock in the morning she and her son Robert were walking home on the right side of the road. She was in the gutter and her son was close to her on her left. She heard a motorcycle coming behind them, and said to her son, “Mind that motorcycle.” It cam over the hill, and next thing she knew was that it had struck her son and carried him on six yards, and that he had fallen in the middle of the road. The motor cycle went on straight down the hill. The machine had a light. She could not estimate the speed.
 
 
George HORN, farm servant, of High Netherscales, Embleton, said that he and a friend were walking from Embleton to Bassenthwaite Lake. Before they got to the Quarry the motorcycle passed them. It was not going very fast. After it got over the crest of the hill he heard some shoutinhg, and just before the first gate leading to the quarry he saw GREENUP lying in the middle of the road with both legs broken. Further on he came across a man lying in a hedge. He was on the left hand side of the road. The motorcycle was at the kerb and the end of the hedge. The deceased was bleeding very badly, and he seemed to be dead. The motorcycle light was out.
 
 
Police Inspector BROWN, of Cockermouth said that at 3-40 a.m., along with Dr. ELLIS and Dr. KNIPE, he went to Embleton. Deceased was in the BELLS’ cottage and the doctors pronounced life extinct. GREENUP was in his own house with both legs broken.
 
 
Nine yards from the point where the accident occurred, in the direction of Bassenthewaite, he found a number of pieces of glass, including reflector glass, and eighty yards further on, on the Bassenthwaits side of Embleton, he found a motorcycle and a pool of blood. There were marks on the dyke breast, showing that the motorcycle had mounted it, traveled for a short distance, and then came off it very suddenly, as though it might have fallen over. The motorcycle had the front extension and the front mud guard damaged, and the front number plate was badly bent and the front lamp broken off.
 
 
The doctors said the cause of death was fracture of the skull. The injuries were mostly facial. The pillion passenger, Samuel CLARK, of Bassenthwaite, was suffering from a concussion, and he and GREENUP, neither of whom was fit to make a statement, were taken to the Cottage Hospital at Cockermouth.
 
 
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