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Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, April 30th, 1998 3 Clltheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified) Friendly moves over son’s death
SPEED well over the 30 m.p.h. limit and per haps more than 50 m.p.h. was blamed for the death of a young Clitheroe man killed when his Capri swung sideways into a parked
fatal accident. Mr Dickins had been driving
along the A678 on Blackburn Road in Clayton-le-Moors in his blue 2.8 litre injection Ford Capri and was killed when the vehicle swung sideways while c ro s s ing a bridge and h i t a
parked car and a wall. His passenger, Mr Bryan Fox,
car. But his grieving mother
declared at the Blackburn inquest that he was a good driver who would not have been going so fast. Mrs Dawn Fielding, of
Salth ill Road, Clitheroe, told Coroner Mr Andre Rebello that her son, Gareth John Dickins (18), of York Street, Clitheroe, was "a brilliant lad" and that she "could not understand what had happened" to cause the
who escaped without injury, told the hearing: "As we went to go over the bridge the back of the car lifted as if we had hit some thing. We started to slide out into the other side of the road." Ambulanceman Mr Wilfred
Jones, stationed at Altham, said that in his opinion Mr Dickins was already dead when he arrived at the accident, on Janu ary 29th this year. However, every effort was made to resusci
tate him. A report from Home Office
pathologist Dr John Rutherford said that Mr Dickins died from a
blunt force chest injury, caused by the side-on impact. He had suffered bleeding in his chest cav ities and from a ruptured aorta, which had caused both his lungs
to collapse. Accident investigator PC John
Sutcliffe said that both sets of seat belts had been in use. The driver's was stretched and the passenger's showed signs of
stress. "Seat belts are little help in a
side impact," pointed out the
officer. He said there were tyre marks
in the road of a type caused by a wheel sliding sideways as well as rotating and said that the Capri had lost stability as it went over
the bridge. Although the vehicle's rear
tyre pressures were incorrect, there were not features about the car or the road which contributed
to the accident. The officer described tests he
had conducted using controlled
Sylvi going back to her roots for
charity challenge
A CLITHEROE woman who was born in Zimbabwe is to return to the country of her birth to take part in a
nite departure date. I can’t
wait!" Miss Hill spent the first
challenging, two- year placement with development charity Skillshare Africa. Miss Sylvi Hill (26),
of Shawbridge Street, who is qualified to teach English as a for eign language, will fly out to Southern Africa in the next few months to work at a secondary school in a remote, rural region of Mozambique.
' . She said: "Having
recently returned from two years spent teaching in Pakistan, I was on the look-out for a new chal lenge and, having been bom in Africa, I’d always been attracted to the idea Of working there. Now I am just waiting for a defi
year of her life in Zimbab we and many of her early years in various countries before her family, made up of her English father, Peter, her Finnish mother, Pirkko, and her brother, Mikko, settled in Clitheroe nine years ago. She attend ed the sixth form at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School before gaining a degree from Coventry Uni versity and her teaching qualifications in London. She was introduced to
Skillshare Africa by a friend who had already been on a placement with them. Based in Leicester, the charity recruits skilled men and women from the UK to work with the peo ple and communities of Southern Africa. Giving help in the form it is most needed, the aim is long term, sustainable develop ment through the sharing of skills. Miss Hill said: "Across
Southern Africa, English is the first language of busi
ness and commerce. This has meant relative isola tion for Mozambique where Portugese is mainly spoken. Learning English has therefore become a pri ority for Mozambicans, but there is a shortage of qualified teachers to meet this end." She added: "As well as
teaching students, my role will involve working with
local teachers at the school to also help improve their English language skills. "In this way, my work
should ultimately benefit the many thousands of schoolchildren." Miss Hill (pictured) has
no definite plans for when she returns from Mozam bique in the year 2000, but she is sure her future lies in education. She said: "I just love working with children, so I am considering going into teaching as a full-time career or perhaps develop ment work where I would s t i l l have an input into education. As long as I can continue to work with youngsters I will be happy.' (270498/30/04)
Kitty in fine trim for the London Marathon - at 60
' For the 60-year-old keep-fit instructor has just completed her 11th Don- don Marathon. It took the former Calderstones nurse tutor just under four •hours to complete the gruelling 26-mile haul. "The last couple of miles were ;hard work, but the excitement of finishing just keeps you going,' said Miss
SABDEN'S Miss Kitty Garnett just keeps running on. . . and on. . . and on.
^ ^Garnett (pictured).
; For her efforts she raised £250 for cancer research chanty Quest and she was quick to thank her sponsors and friends for all their sup port. I t was all gr eat ly appreciated, she expl ained, and it had helped her through her rigorous training programme, which had in it ia l ly entailed running 25 to 30 miles a week, before build ing to 50 miles a week in the final run-up to the "big
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Alterations to the Old
Stonehouse
PROPOSED alterations to the Old Stonehouse, Whal- ley, will be in keeping with the character of the build ing, say council officials. They recommended
approval of an application for. work on a Victorian part of the property, some of which dated back to
1500. ■ An archway will be moved and fully restored and there will be bar improvements and re-open- ihg of mullion windows. ,The work will retain, if
not enhance, the building's architectural features and help continue restaurant
use. The approval was condi
tional on samples of mater ial to be used being approved by the authority prior to work beginning.
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skid marks from a specially- equipped police vehicle on the road and also calculations he had made about the force of the impact. He told the coroner that the speed at which the Capri was travelling before the accident was around 54 m.p.h., with the colli- sion itself taking place at about 35 m.p.h. He said that the figures would
be plus or minus 10 per cent, but emphasised: "The speed was well in excess of that of the 30 m.p.h. speed limit for that stretch of
road." The accident was caused, he
tioned whether PC Sutcliffe could be "100% sure tha t Gareth was driving a t tha t speed", he replied that although he could not, the tests carried out showed tha t he was. He. pointed out that the tyre marks had to have some explanation.
The coroner asked PC Sutcliffe
had concluded, by "loss of control due to excess speed". When Mrs Fielding ques- >
■ tremendously since the Capri had been made. "That is one rea son why there are fewer fatalities than then - there are side impact bars, cage construction to pro tect the occupants, and other fea
tures," he said. The coroner thanked PC Sut
cliffe tot his efforts in making "a thorough investigation dealing
. with all aspects of the accident", l ie offered Mrs Fielding and
other members of the family his I condolences over the tragic loss of a yodng life, and recorded a j verdict of accidental death.
sought for an organisation dedicated to making Clitheroe a friendlier town to those with disabilities. Having already worked to secure disabled parking
about the speed and power of the Capri and PC Sutcliffe said that that model had once been used by Manchester police as patrol cars. It was now not unusual to find young people driving such vehicles. They were prepared to pay the insurance premiums. - I But, he went on, the whole design of cars had changed
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