MOTOR FATALITY

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 290, 7 September 1928, Page 11

MOTOR FATALITY

ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLED Dominion Special Service. Christchurch, September 6. As the result of being run over by a motor-ear in Colombo Street, Sydenham, near the corner of Tennyson Street, late yesterday afternoon, Eric Jones, aged eleven years, who lived at 9 Dunn Street, Spreydon, received injuries to his head and leg and suffered internal injury. He was unconscious when admitted to the Christchurch Hospital, and although he regained consciousness later, he died at 7.15 this morning. Tlie boy was crossing the street at the back of a tram and was run over by the motor, which was being driven citywards by Miss Ena Frances Lister, of 10 Courtenay Street, St. Albans, who had her mother with her. An inquest was held to-day. The evidence of the driver of the car was that she was travelling at 15 miles an hour. She saw the boy step off the footpath on to tlie road half a chain in front of her car; she applied the brakes and sounded the horn, and the boy looked towards her and stopped. Then the boy made a dash to cross in front of the car. She applied the brakes hard, but could not avoid striking him. The Coroner found that no blame was attachable. to the driver.