DRIVER EXONERATED
MR SPENCER COLLAR'S DEATH Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 2. The jury returned a verdict that Mr Gollan’s death was accidental and it exonerated the driver. The coroner said that Mr Gollan was blind in one eye. The evidence showed that he stepped from a reluge in front of an omnibus, not looking where he was going. The driver had fourteen years experience, and held six or seven diplomas for freedom from accidents. He had vainly jammed on both brakes. [A former New Zealander, Mr Spencer H Gollan, was run over by a motor bus in Oxford street on January 29 and killed. Mr Gollan, who was born in Mangatarata, Auckland, was educated in New Zealand, Switzerland, and Cambridge, and was a very prominent athlete, having won events in rowing, sculling, running, swimming, boxing, golf (including two New Zealand amateur championships), and other sports. Ho was also successful as a racehorse owner, and won the Grand National Steeples with the New Zealand horse Mo i la a. J
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Evening Star, Issue 21637, 5 February 1934, Page 8
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171DRIVER EXONERATED Evening Star, Issue 21637, 5 February 1934, Page 8
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