John Anthony Edge

John Anthony Edge was hit by a van in the road. However, it was determined that he had already been lying in the road when he was hit.

An open verdict was returned.

He was hit on the Newark to Collingham road at Langford on 28 November 1962.

He had lived in Braemer Road in Collingham.

A man, who had lived in Sandfield Way, Valley Prospect, Newark, said that he had been driving from Collingham to Newark at 5.25pm on 28 November 1962 when he saw a van coming towards him and swerve out to the centre of the road and then back to its nearside and the stop and that as he passed the van he noticed a cyclist lying in the road.

He said that he stopped and saw another van coming from the direction of Newark and that he signalled for the van to stop, but it continued, running over John Edge in the road and also hitting the first van driver, who, by that time had been by John Edge's side, after which it collided with a lorry that had arrived at the scene.

The lorry driver, who was from Cowley in Oxford, said that he saw two vehicles stopped in front of him and a man bending over a man lying on the road. He said that he stopped his lorry and before he could climb out a van came along in the opposite direction and hit the two men in the road and crashed into his lorry.

The driver of the second van, who was from Wood Hill in South Scarle, Collingham, refused to give evidence at the inquest, as did the driver of the first van who was hit by the second van. The driver of the first van was from Carlisle Road in Gainsborough.

A doctor said that John Edge's death was due to cerebral lacerations following multiple fractures of the skull.

When the Coroner summed up, he said that they didn't know how John Edge came to be lying in the road. He suggested that he might have fainted, or might have been knock over by the first van, noting that they didn't know whether the first van had hit John Edge or not, but that they knew that the second van did.