NEED FOR CARE
PEDESTRIANS ON ROADS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, May 14.
The duty of foot passengers as well as drivers .of motor-vehicles to exorciso extreme care on tho roads was emphasised; by the Coroner, Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in returning his verdict at an inquest into the death of Robert Graham Campbell, a club steward, who was killed in an accident in Fitzgerald Avenue at about 7.45 p.m. on April 29. ...
The Coroner said it appeared from the evidence that ' the driver of the motor-car, in front of which. Campbell had walked and by which he had been knocked down had been in no way negligible. If thefoot passenger had exercised reasonable care there would have boon no accident.
The evidence was that Campbell, wishing to. cross the street, stepped from tho shadow of somo trees into the roadway and the driver of the .ear could not possibly have stopped to avoid the accident., Tlic speed of the ear, it was stated, was 18 to 20 miles an hour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 113, 15 May 1934, Page 16
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171NEED FOR CARE Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 113, 15 May 1934, Page 16
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