DEAD AT THE WHEEL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 86, 13 April 1931, Page 9

DEAD AT THE WHEEL.

ELDERLY MOTORIST'S FATE. SEQUEL TO ACCIDENT. SEIZURE THOUGHT PROBABLE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sunday. Rather puzzling features attended the death of a motorist in the city on Saturday afternoon. Jervois Quay was almost deserted in stormy weather at 4 p.m., when a passer-by noticed a small motor car at rest across the footpath, which it had mounted before colliding with an electric power sub-station. The driver, with a cut on the head, j was hanging over the front right-hand door and ambulance men called from a depot near by found, after a brief examination, that the man was dead. The police were communicated with and the body was later identified as that of Mr. Joseph Nind, aged about 65, who lived at Mornington. He was a butcher by trade and leaves a wife and grownup children. It is thought that Mr. Nind must have had some sort of a seizure while driving along the road and lost control of his car, which crashed into the sub-station. The windshield was broken and Mr. Nind was cut on the head, but although the cut went to the bone, there was no fracture, and his injuries were not such as would cause death. No one saw the accident. The police expect a post-mortem examination will reveal that Mr. Nind collapsed and died from heart failure. I