Age: 61
Sex: male
Date: 26 May 1955
Place: Highfield Road, Chasetown, Burntwood
Samuel Hammond was found unconscious next to his bicycle in Highfield Road, Chasetown, about midnight on Monday 23 May 1955. He was taken to Victoria Hospital in Lichfield where he died on Thursday 26 May 1955.
He had lived at 4 Commonside in Brownhills and was a lamphouse man, working at Wood Colliery. The distance between his home and place of work was about four miles and he had been riding his bicycle to work for about two years although had not been doing so recently until the day he was found injured as he had had a bad cough.
