ACCIDENT IN CITY

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 104, 26 January 1933, Page 10

ACCIDENT IN CITY

Elderly Builder’s Death CONFLICT OF EVIDENCE While walking across the Cuba Street-Wakefield Street intersection on December 12 last, Mr. Arthur John Ibbotson. a builder, aged 62, was caught in a position between a motorcar and a motor-cycle—both of which were moving-—and was knocked down bv one or the other or both. He Was taken to Wellington Hospital, and died a fortnight later without recovering consciousness. The coroner, Mr. H. A. Gilbertson, inquiring yesterday into the accident, wafe faced with a conflict of evidence as to which of the vehicles had first struck Mr. Ibbotson. He returned a finding that death had resulted from Injuries received in an accident which had occurred through no fault of Mr. Ibbotson. The evidence was exceedingly conflicting. the coroner said, and he was not prepared to differentiate between the parties as to whose negligence had been responsible for the injuries and death. Even the versions given by two eye-witnesses were at variance, and there was no positive evidence that either of the drivers had been negligent. - !