DANGER OF DIMMING

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1926, Page 7

DANGER OF DIMMING

CORONER'S REMARKS AT INQUEST

" AUTHORITIES WILL HAVE TO DO SOMETHING."

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, 2nd Dec. "I think tho dimming of the car's headlights was a great factor in causing tho accident," said the Coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in returning a verdict of accidental death at the inquest concerning the death of George Aldridge, pastor, of West street Church of Christ. The deceased was knocked down by a motor-car in Dominion road on 12th October and died later in the Auckland Hospital. Mr. Northcroft said the driver could not appear, as he had been seriously ill sinco the accident. In a statement to the police the driver said he dimmed his lights on account of the approach of two other cars. He swerved to avoid the deceased, but could not effect a total clearance. Mr. Hunt said he found nothing to show that there was any negligence on the part of the driver. "The time has come," he said, "when tho authorities will have to do something in tho matter ,of dimming headlights. lam quite sure that if the deceased could have seen a ray of light from tho car the accident would not have occurred. The man would be alive to-day if tho lights had not been dimmed."