KILLED BY LORRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 110, 12 May 1930, Page 8

KILLED BY LORRY.

ELDERLY WOMAN AT NAPIER.

INTOXICATION ALLEGED

AGAINST DRIVER.

KNOCKED OFF HER BICYCLE.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

NAPIER, Sunday.

An elderly woman, Mrs. Mary Kingsland, wife of Mr. James Kingsland, of Te Awa, Napier, was knocked down and killed instantly yesterday afternoon by a motor lorry driven by Reginald Frank Hunt, of Hastings.

Tho deceased had just crossed the railway line at Todd Street on a bicycle, and. was proceeding towards the town when the lorry, coming from the opposite direction, knocked her off her machine.

Mrs. Kingsland fell under the wheels of the lorry. The front wheels passed over her body, which was dragged some yards before the lorry stopped. A constable took charge of the lorry and drove Hunt to the police station,' where he is detained on a charge of being in ' charge of a motor vehicle while, it is alleged, being in a state of intoxication.

The,inquest was opened this morning before the coroner, Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M.

Jame3 „Kingsland, husband of the deceased, said the deceased was 62 years of age, and her. sight and hearing were good. Witness reached the scene of the accident soon after it. occurred. Witness told.a constable on the spot that Hunt was drunk,.and witness noticed as Hunt went off with'the constable that he could not walk-'steadily.-'Witness had no doubt - Hunt • was drunk. The inquest '■ was adjourned.

Thirty-five boys from the Auckland Grammar' School left, by the Limited express last'evening to spend the term holidays at National Park.