PENSIONER'S DEATH.
WALKED INTO MOTOR CAR. This appears to be one of the ordinary rases in which elderiy persons go out at night, some of them with failing sight, a "d ""'k into motor cars and are killed, ' said the city eoroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.. this morning, at an inquest into the death of a |>ensioner, Knowels Totum Scott, aged 09. The dri\er of the car, George Harold Mitchell, said that at 7.40 p.m. on March 25 he was driving along Newton Road from Svmonds Street when lie felt a bump on the driver's side of the car. He pulled up immediately and found tlie deceased lying on the road.
Mr. Hunt returned a verdict that Scott died in the Auckland Hospital on March 26 from injuries received when he was accidentally knocked down by a car.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 97, 24 April 1940, Page 10
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PENSIONER'S DEATH.
Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 97, 24 April 1940, Page 10
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