HIGHWAY DEATHTRAPS
PROTECTIVE RAILINGS NEEDED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Blenheim, August 6. In connection with the death of Mrs. Violet Chaney, of Kaiapoi, who was killed as a result of her motor-ear overturning at a culvert on the BlenheimChristchurch road near Grassmere on Saturday night, the Coroner, Mr. E. J. Hill, in returning a verdict of accidental death, attributed the accident to the absence of any indication of the existence of a blind culvert on the road, and remarked that there were a good many such death traps throughout the country. He could see no sufficient reason for the present distinction in the eyes of the law between the liability of factory owners in respect of machinery and the responsibility of local bodies in respect of road dangers, and said statutory provision should be made for railings or some such indication of these death traps.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 267, 7 August 1929, Page 13
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144HIGHWAY DEATHTRAPS Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 267, 7 August 1929, Page 13
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