CAR DRIVER'S DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1927, Page 10

CAR DRIVER'S DEATH.

TWO MEN TO STAND TRIAL

EVIDENCE OF HIGH SPEED,

OTHER CARS "MISSED BY IXCHES."

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.I

WELLINGTON', this dav

Ernest George Reid and Henry Star-ey. labourers, were committed yesterday to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge of manslaughter, in that by unlawfully using and recklessly driving a motor-ear owned by Bertlie Somerville Lyon, they killed Henry Bryan Kenny, driver of the service ear. They were also committed on a charge of doing bodily harm to Madge Williams. Bail was not applied for.

After healing all the evidence, Mr. E. Page, S.M., sat as coroner in an inquest concerning Mr. Kenny's death. He found that a motor-car, occupied by Harper and Stacey and driven at a high rate of speed, came into violent collision with the service car driven by deceased, and in that collision Kenny was killed. On Wrong Side of Road. The evidence was unanimous on the point that the speed of the sedan car did not fall below 3o miles an hour at .any stage of its journey on the Hutt Road, and rose at times to between 50 and no miles an hour. It was travelling at one of the latter speeds when it struck the service ear on the right-hand side of Up radiator. Witnesses were uncertain as to which of the two accused was driving the sedan car. winch pursued «n most erratic course at a reckless pace*' along the road. Witnesses wore certain on the point that nu aendent could not lons be avoided if the sedan car continued in the same manner in which they saw it.

Patrol Constable Ruddell said that in chasing the car his speed was 48 mii-s an hour, but he was not gaining on it The oar suddenly went to the wrong side of the road and crashed into the service car. which was on its right side o; the load, coming toward Wellington. Name of Driyer Uncertain. Witness estimated that the Essex car. at the time of the collision, was travelling at 50 miles an hour. It missed several other vehiclee by inches onlv. At no time was its speed below 35 miles an hour. After the collision he found a small flask of whisky and a broken tumbler in the sedan car.

Statements by both accused, in which the one accused the other of being the driver, were read by the police. "Each admitted having had drink.