ACCIDENTS
Ran into Car YOUNG GIRL’S DEATH. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 30. “The girl ran into the motor-car when she ran across the road from the back of a tram,” said a witness at the inquest on Joyce Mabel Pointon, aged 12 years, who was knocked down by a motor-car near Chilka Street, receiving injuries from which she died. The driver of the motor-car, Ronald Keith Mitchell, said that he was travelling at about 15 miles per hour, and as he came level with the approaching tram, which had just previously stopped, the girl ran out from behind the tram-car and struck his mudguard.
In returning a verdict that the girl’s death was caused by injuries received in a collision with a motor-car, the Coroner (Mr E. Gilbertson), remarked that the child perhaps hurried, and was not looking out.
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Grey River Argus, 1 December 1938, Page 7
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