EVIDENCE OF SPEED

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 137, 6 December 1935, Page 4

EVIDENCE OF SPEED

HUTT ROAD FATALITY

INQUEST CONCLUDED

The inquest into two deaths resulting from a collision between a motor-cycle and a pedestrian on the Hutt Road at its junction with Onslow Road on the evening of October 17 was 'concluded before the Coroner (Mr. E. Gilbertson, J.P.) today. The victims of the accident were- Mrs. Amy Myrtle Green, a widow, who was killed instantly, and David George Lamond, a motor engineer, aged 24, who died in hospital on the following day. The inquest had been adjourned from November 6 because of the absence of two witnesses.

Senior-Sergeant D. J. O'Neill conducted the inquest for the police, and Mr. O. C. Mazengarb appeared for the Lamond family.

Captain 'A. G. W. Heber-Percy, A.D.C. to the Governor-General, said he was travelling on the Hutt Road at about 45 miles an hour and the motor-cyclist passed him.

Corroborative evidence of the speed at which Lamond had been travelling was given by Hubert Frederick Dobson, Captain Heber-Percy's chauffeur, and Clifford Atkinson, who was driving another car on the road at the time.

The Coroner returned a formal verdict of death from injuries suffered in the collision. Lamond had been travelling in a southerly direction along the Hutt Road on his correct side and had struck Mrs. Green, who was walking across the road.