TRAVELLER'S DEATH.
EVIDENCE AT ENQUIRY. irauss association tblkoham ) THAMES, November 12. The circumstances of the death of Alfred Charles Samuel Wilson, a commercial traveller who was killed when a motor-car overturned on the main Paeroa-Thames road on October 13th, were enquired into befors the Coroner, Mr M. H. Lucas, yesterday. The car was a two-seater, the passengers being Sidney West and two girls, Lucy Alley and Evelyn White, all of whom attended a dance at Hikutaia, leaving there for a drive toward# Thames. At 2.30 a.m. a passing motorist found the party on the side of the road. Wilson was in a dying state, West was severely injured, and the girls were slightly hurt. The evidence showed that there had been no drink at the dance. West said that the car, when travelling at forty miles an hour, got into the grass at the side of the road, somersaulting twice. t The Coroner found that Wilson was accidentally killed by being thrown from > car driven by himielf, which swerved •nd overturned.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19775, 13 November 1929, Page 7
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