ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10727, 26 October 1928, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR

MAN ACCIDENTALLY KILLED

CORONER COMMENTS ON LIGHTING DANGERS

(Press Asspciation.)

WELLINGTON, Oct, 25. The inquest was concluded to-day on Samuel Sloan Oliver, of Hastings, who was knocked down on Thorndon Quay early on the morning of October 6 by a motor car driven by William Wilson Carter, foreman for General Motors. F<?tone,‘l£hd who died in hospital from a fracture of the skull and haemorrhage of the brain. . , ' . Evidence was given to the effect that the driver of the motor car was returning from a banquet at the Grand Hotel where he had had drinks, hut they had no effect on his capability as a driver. The police said ho showed no effects of drink. The place of the accident, although well - lighted, had Sev- • eral shadows about it and the deceased appeared to come out of one into the Warn of the car and when > seen too late deceased appeared to lurch forward on to the car. ; The ‘coroner, Mr E. Pago,. S.M., said it i 8; a fact a person moving from j alternate lights and' shades fis not r visible to a driver of a motor car until lie enters the beam of the motors headlights. Many people, be.added,: did/ not know this, and imagined, that because, a street was lighted; by overhead lamps they could ho seen ’the whole time they were : crossing the road; • whereas' such was not; tho case He found that deceased was accidentally ■ killed! through. Being [ knocked down by a motor car m. the early hours of tho morning -f 6th : .October. In his view the evidence fell short of - establishing criminal liability on the part of the driver.

Who pays the bill for the injured worker? Consult' the Standard Insurance . Company- for full protection. C. G Bloore, chief agent; A. G. Seddbn, local manager.—(Advt.)