WOMAN'S DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17, 21 January 1933, Page 12

WOMAN'S DEATH.

VERDICT AT INQUEST.

DRIVER EXONERATED.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

WHANGAREI, this day.

The adjourned inquest into the death of Mrs. Myra Josephine Olga Doel, aged 21, who was killed when a lorry tipped over a bank at Otonga on December 30 was held to-day before Mr. W. Reynolds, acting-coroner, and a jury.

Dr. P. C. E. Brunette said that deceased was admitted to the public hospital at <5.30 p.m. on the day of the accident in ail unconscious state, suffering from extreme shock. She rallied during the night, but died at 5 a.m. on December 31. In his opinion death was attributable to shock, rupture of the right kidney and internal injury. Norris Vivian "Boyd, a motor mechanic, aged 18, said he was driving a truck into Whangarei with four passengers, of whom deceased was one. Coming to a place where there was a wash-out across the road, which was obscured by fern, the front wheel hit the depression. He swerved to the left, and to avoid hitting the bank, swerved back. Apparently tl-o wheels locked through the steering gear turning inside out and the truck went over the bank. All occupants were thrown into a creek.

Without retiring, the jury found that deceased died from injuries received as the result of a motor truck in which she was a passenger running off the Otonga-Marua Road, 110 blame being attached to the driver.