Age: 55
Sex: male
Date: 28 Nov 1954
Place: Horsham Road, Horsham
Frank Oliver Napper was found injured by his motor scooter in the road on Saturday 27 November 1954 and was taken to hospital where he died the following day 28 November 1954.
He was found on the Horsham to Cranleigh Road near to Selham Lodge corner. A policeman said that Frank Napper as found about 40 yards beyond a hump-back bridge on the way to Horsham. He said that there was a gully between 2 and 6 paces wide that had been made by traffic travelling too close to the grass verge in bad weather and that it was filled with mud and leaves as a result of a gale the previous Friday.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see West Sussex County Times - Friday 03 December 1954
see Unsolved 1954