AUCKLAND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 95, 16 January 1926, Page 7

AUCKLAND FATALITIES

MOTOR DRIVERS BLAMED. By Teleghapii.—Press Association Auckland, January 15. An inquest was held to-day concerning the death of Ernest Whitehurst Neild, a motor cyclist, who was run over by a motor lorry in Khyber Pass on January 9. It was stated that Neild was passing tho motor lorry- going up a lise, when he. suddenly slackened, and tho bumper of a motor-car, driven by Norman Ah Chee, fruiterer, who was following behind, hit the back, of the motor cycle, the rider of which fell underneath a front wheel of the lorry. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death, caused by’ falling under tho wheel of the lorry. Tho coroner said that ho had to find negligence on the part of Ah Chee for not keeping a sufficient distance behind tho motor cyclist. An inquest was also hold regarding tho death of Emilia Thorburn, an old lady, who *was walking across irom a footpath in Broadway, Newmarket, o.n January 8 to hoard a tramcar, when she was knocked down by a motor-ear driven by Mrs. Margaret Esther Rogers. The coroner said that death was due to injuries received through being struck and run over by the car driven by Mrs. Rogers, who was driving slowly at the time, and did her best by swerving to avoid injury’ to deceased, who by hesitating when crossing the street contributed "to the risk of accident. But tho driver of the motor-car was to blame in not observing the . by-law which required drivers of vehicles to keen to the roar of a tramcar which had slopped to take up or discharge ■assengois. •