RANGIOTU BRIDGE FATALITY.
INQ UEST CON CfL I'D'E I). (by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) PALMERSTON N., Jan. 29. The inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the fatality at Rtangiotu Road bridge was concluded to-day. Another one of the witnesses related having a somewhat similar experience to Mr. Wither’s when driving his car one night previously, just pulling up with his headlights touching the palings of the fence. Consequently on the night of the accident, when he was also driving 1 1 iis. car ahead of the ill-fated one. he had been accompanying Withers, he was on the look-out for the proper approach to the bridge. Since the accident the approach had been made much safer. The coroner returned a verdict that the two boys were accidentally drojvned; that the accident was apparently due to an error of judgment on the part of Withers mistaking the approach of the railway bridge for that of the traffic bridge; further that at the time of the accident there was an element of danger at the locality. It was. satisfactory to note from the evidence that steps had been taken to prevent a recurrence of such accidents.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 30 January 1926, Page 5
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