KILLED ON WHARF

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 59, 4 December 1923, Page 11

KILLED ON WHARF

* INQUIRY INTO FATAL COLLISION. The circumstances surrounding the death of Andrew Allison Craig, an employee of the City Milk Department, who was killed on the wharf on Friday morning last through his cart colliding with a trailer, were inquired into yesterday by the Coroner (Mr. E. tage, S.M.).

William Miller McArdle said that at about 11.40 a.m. on Friday he was driving a scooter with a trailer attached. towards Queen’s Wharf. He saw nothing of the accident, and the first thing he knew about it was someone shouting out. At the time the scooter was stationary. The trailer was loaded with a heavy case, and the hot tar had pulled him up. “If I had been driving the cart I would not have driven as close to tho trailer as deceased did.” said Constable John Isbistcr, in his evidence. R. H. Craig, brother of deceased, stated that the latter was about 50 years of age, and as far as witness knew, both his sight nd hearing were good. He had had a long experience with horses.

The Coroner, in summing up. said that a number of combined circumstances seemed to have caused the accident. There was ample room between the stationary scooter and the store for deceased to drive his cart through, but evidently the trailer had moved back some inches, and tho jar of the impact threw Craig to the ground. The horse moved on, and the‘wheels of the cart passed over the fallen man. “The deceased died as a result of a fall from his cart, which collided with- the trailer of a scooter driven by William Miller McArdle, on November 30. 1923.” concluded tho Coroner.

Mr. F. Haigh appeared for tho relatives of deceased ; Mr. J. B. Stevenson for tho Harbour Board ; Mr. J. O’Shea, on behalf of tho City Council ; Mr. H. Swindell for the Dairy Workers’ Union; and Sergeant Scott for tho police.