A MOTOR FATALITY
DRIVER UNFIT TO BE ID 'CHARGE [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, lanuaiy 111. At the inquest on Thomas Samuel Davie Porter, aged thirty-three, who was killed as the result of a motor lorry accident, in which ho was a passenger, the coroner said that the driver, James Joseph Small, had taken more drink than he should have in the circumstances. Though he was not drunk his mental equilibrium was disturbed to a point where he was unfit to ho in charge of the truck. There was nothing to have caused a man in his normal senses to have driven into the gutter. A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical testimony.
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Evening Star, Issue 19778, 31 January 1928, Page 12
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115A MOTOR FATALITY Evening Star, Issue 19778, 31 January 1928, Page 12
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