A CHILD'S DEATH.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20629, 19 August 1932, Page 4

A CHILD'S DEATH.

EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. U'RES3 ASSOCIATION TELSORAM.) WELLINGTON, August 18. Tho medical evidence not being available until to-morrow, the Coroner ivas unable to close the inquest to-day into the death of Ronald Emms, aged 5J years, who was kuocked down in Tinakori road on the evening of August 3rd by a taxi driven by John William Ashford, and who died in hospital three days later. Ashford said that at the time of the accident he was proceeding at twenty miles an hour. lie felt a slight bump and thought he had struck a stone or a rut, but noticed some object sliding across the bitumen. He pulled up and was horrified to find a child lying unconscious. He did not know whore the child had come from. It was raining at the time and visibility was very bad on either side of his headlights. "The only explanation I can offer," lie said, "is that the child stepped out from the footpath directly in front of the taxi and was too short to come into my line of vision." Other witnesses who wore in the vicinity at the time of the accident said they did not actually see the boy struck. Visibility was bad at the time. The inquest was adjourned.