CHRISTMAS MORNING SMASH
Service-Car Driver’s Death “ACCIDENT CAUSED BY DRINK” By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, January 28. ‘•This accident was caused by drink : there is no doubt about that,” said the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, to-day at the conclusion of an inquest concerning the death of Andrew Miller Donnacliie, aged 22, service car driver, who died in hospital twelve hours aftei a car he was driving crashed into a telegraph pole on Tamaki Drive,- Kohimarama, at 2 o’clock on Christmas morning. The evidence showed that Donnaclne was accompanied by four other men. One who was in the front seat was asleep, and when lie fell against Donnachie’s arm the latter lost control of the car, which swerved across (he road on the wrong side and struck the pole. The occupants, with one exception, were taken to hospital. The police said that all the occupants appeared to have been slightly' intoxicated. Seven full bottles of beer and five empty bottles were found in the wrecked car. Dr. Beattie said that when admitted to hospital Donnaclne smelt strongly <vf alcohol. The cause of death was internal hemorrhage from lacerations of the right lung. The coroner returned a verdict that death was caused by' injuries received when a car driven by the deceased collided with a telegraph pole.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 106, 29 January 1938, Page 12
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