CORONER'S RIDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 100, 29 April 1940, Page 8

CORONER'S RIDER.

PEDESTRIAN CROSSING. MOUNT EDKX FATALITY. "This crossing is dangerous: in fact, is a death trap." paid the <-itv coroner. Mr. F. K. Hunt, this morning, after returning a verdict at the inquest touching the death of a widow. Mrs. Emma Dexter, r.ged 70. of 4. Dexter Avenue. who succumbed to injuries received when she was struck by a motor car while crossing Dominion Road, near Dexter Avenue, on the evening on April 1. The evidence showed that shortly after 7 p.m. on April 1. Mrs. Dexter, accompanied by her sister, was walking across the pedestrian crossing. Her sister got across, but Mrs. Dexter was struck by the side of a motor car. The crossing was stated to l>c very dark, situated between the street lisht.s. and further obscured by a dark background of hedge.

The coroner returned a verdict that Mrs. Dexter died before she reavhed hospital a« the result of injuries received through being knocked "down by a motor ear. After describing the pedestrian crossing as a death trap. Mr. Hunt added a rider that the attention of the local authority should be drawn to the crossing. He said that in the opinion of witnesses and the police, it should "be eliminated.

Sergeant Grainger, who conducted the inqueet for the police, euggested -that before pedestrian crossings were established, the site should be examined. This one, he added, was in a particularly bad place.