DEATH OF MRS. WYATT.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 95, 22 April 1921, Page 2

DEATH OF MRS. WYATT.

I INQUEST CONCLUDED. j The adjourned inquest touching the death of Mrs. X. P. Wyatt, who was killed when a motor car overturned in . Lucerne Road, Remuera, on Monday, ;April 11, was continued this morning , before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., and concluded this afternoon. The evidence taken tlits morning was mostly formal, and the majority of the witnesses merely repeated their written statements concerning the fatality. Mr. F. D. McLiver, instructed I>y Mr. Indcr, appeared for the driver of the car, Herbert Vivian Stabler, and Mr. Stanton represented the owner of the car. Mr. Nugent P. Wyatt, who was in the car with his wife and party 'when the accident occurred, had sustained a broken collarbone. He gave formal evidence along the lines of his previous written statement. He described how the car had been running slowly near the tram terminus, then went faster. A boy on a bicycle in front was on his rijrht side. He turned to look over his shoulder and swerved towards the middle of the road. The driver swerved to avoid the boy and the ear suddenly capsized. The boy's name was Allan "Mcintosh, and he "said the car turned a complete somersault. Albert George Holland, who lived near the scene of the accident, saw the motor car coming along. It did not appear to be going very fast. He taw it swerve and upset. William Brown also saw the accident, and said the ear was coming at a fairly fast pace. After the accident Mrs. Wyatt was lying in the road about six feet from the car. Herbert Vincent Stabler. motor mechanic, of Auckland, stated he was driving Mr. Wyatt and his familythrough Remuera to Buckland's Beach when the accident occurred. When he got, to the top of the hill he saw a boy on a bicycle. He endeavoured to swerve suddenly to avoid the boy. In Straightening up after the swerve the right-hand near wheel collapsed, causing the'car to overturn. The brake failed to act while travelling down the hill. The car was then travelling at from 20 to 25 miles an hour. After the accident the tracks of the car from the store to where it had overturned could be very plainly seen. The cause of the wheel breaking was the sudden swerve. In answer to the police, Stabler said the boy was "wobbling" about somewhere near the middle of the road, which left him little space to pass. The road is a chain wide, is it not? Yes. Would not that give you plenty of space with reasonable care, to pass" the bov?_Xot a great deal.

Dr. McSweeney, of the Auckland Hospital, gave evidence as to the injuries deceased had received.

Mr. McKean found death was due to shock following on injuries sustained by being thrown from a motor car driven by H. V. Stapler. In answer to Stapler's counsel, the b.M. said that there was nothing in the evidence to indicate that the driver of the car was to blame, and added that to his verdict.