NEGLIGENCE ALLEGED
MOTOR CYCLIST'S DEATH
TRUCK DRIVER CHARGED,
(By Telegraph.—Fress Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday.
The death of Leonard Wylie Blanchard, aged 20, and serious injury to Thomas Jury, through a collision between their motor cycle and a truck allegedly driven by Samuel Edward George Hawke, aged 40, resulted in the appearance of Hawke in the Police Court to-day charged with causing the death of Blanchard by negligently driving a truck on the main road at Oakura on June 11. Only 11 of 30 witnesses for the Crown were heard to-day. An inquest concerning the death of Blanchard is being held in conjunction with the hearing. Blanchard and Jury were found lying on the road beside their cycle. It is alleged that the other vehicle concerned in the collision did not stop. Elaborate, plans and enlarged photographs of the locality, and a mudguard of a motor vehicle, were among the exhibits in Court. The hearing will be continued to-morrow.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 171, 21 July 1936, Page 11
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