BLIND CULVERTS.
CONDEMNED BY CORONER. (rasas amociatio* tslboram.) BLENHEIM, August 6. In connexion with the death of Violet Chaney, of Kaiapoi, who was killed as the result of a motor-car overturning at a culvert on the Blenheim-Christ-church road, near 'rrassmere, on Saturday night, the Coroner (Mr E. J. Hill), in returning a verdict of accidental death, attributed ;he accident to the absence of any indication of the existence of a blind culvert on the road, and remarked that there were a good many such death traps throughout the country. The • Coroner added that he could see no sufficient reason for the present distinction in the eyes of the * law between the liability of factory owners in respect to machinery and the responsibility of local bodies in respect to road dangers, and said that statutory provision should be made for railings or, some such indication of these , death traps.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19691, 7 August 1929, Page 3
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