MOTORING FATALITY
DRWBft ON TRIAL
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)'
PALMERSTON N., This Day. At the Supreme Court the trial of John Drummond, a retired ironmonger of Dannevirke, charged with negligently driving a motor-car on 13th November last on the Woodville-Pahiatua road, near Woodville, causing the death of George Vinton, is proceeding. While he was driving a party'of bowlers to Pahiatua the accused"s car struck Vinton, who was walking on the road in the same direction. He died the following morning from the injuries received. . Addressing the jury, the Crown Prosecutor said that the accused apparently did: not see the boy until within 15 or 20ft of him. He then swerved the car to the left, but it was too late. The car struck the deceased with the right wheel or the right mudguard.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 33, 9 February 1927, Page 10
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132MOTORING FATALITY Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 33, 9 February 1927, Page 10
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