DEATH ACCIDENTAL.
CAR CRASHES IN FOG. (From Our Correspondent.) TE K.UITI, Friday. A verdict that deceased was accidentally killed as a result of injuries received by being jammed against a fencing ]M>st when the car in which he was passenger went over the bank on April 9, was returned by the district coroner, Mr. R. M. Somerville, at an inquest into the death of Mr. Horace Hartley Hedges, aged 49. The coroner added that there was T io evidence of negligence on the part of the driver of the car, Mr. L. K. Rilev. The accident occurred on the narrow and tortuous Patoto Road, near Aria, on a foggy and smoky night.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 99, 29 April 1939, Page 16
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