DESIGN OF CARS USED AS TAXIS
CORONER’S COMMENT ON REAR DOORS
(New Zealand Press Association) WHANGAREI, October 1.
No motor-car should be licensed as a taxicab unless its rear doors, swing from the centre pillar of the car body. The District Coroner (Mr G. H. Lloyd) added this rider to his verdict in an inquest this afternoon into the death of a nine-year-old child, Ann Marree Halford, of Kawakawa. The girl was killed instantaneously when she fell through the rear door of a moving taxi on September 3. Announcing his vedict in accordance with the medical evidence, Mr Lloyd added the rider: “That it be a recommendation to the Transport Department, through the National Road Safety Council, that no motor-car be
licensed as a taxicab unless the rear doors are swung from the centre pillar, and that the depositions and the rider be forwarded to the council.”
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27470, 2 October 1954, Page 8
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