OPEN VERDICT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1931, Page 13

OPEN VERDICT

PETONE FATALITY:

An open, verdict that the 'deceased! died from injuries received in. a collision, with: a. motor-car driven "byRonald Keir Duncan on the Esplanade, Petone, early in the evening of 7th! March was: returned by, the , Coroner; (Mr. L Salek, J.P.). at an inquest, today on Hugh Arthur Sietze Kreyl, agedj 19. . _;- .-.'-. ...•'■.. The deceased was cycling with a companion when he was struck from behind) by the car and carried some distance; on the radiator. Giving evidence today, ~ Constable S. C. Higgins said that when he saw the driver of the car afc the scone of the accident. Duncan said' that he saw the deceased's companion,' who had a light on the cycle, but ■ did! not seethe deceased until he was! right on top of him. He knqeked .thef decoased down, and when, he' saw Mm! bouncing on the radiator he lost his* head and did not apply the brakes until1 he had gone some distance. The] driver said the foot brake would not work, but the hand brake was all right Senior-Sergeant Dompsoy -: conducted!' the inquest. Mr. p. C. Mazengarb appeared for the relatives of the de--ceased, and. Mr. H. F. O'Leary, .with] him Mr. W. P. Boilings, for the driver,1 of the car.