DEATHS IN CAR SMASH
DRIVER HELD RESPONSIBLE. VERDICT AT INQUEST. (By lojegrspa—Pros* Association.! ( WAIEOA, To-day. An inquest on the victims of the car smash on January 5 was concluded yesterday and after a lengthy hearing the coroner (Mr V. E. Winter) returned a verdict that Walter Tangi and Caroline Watson met their deaths as the 1 result of injuries received through a car collision on the Napier Road. The evidence went fo show, added Mr Winter, that the driver of the car, James Watson, was responsible for the collision and lor the deaths of the three victims.
The driver, w 7 ho suffered a bad fracture of the arm, is still a patient in the Gisborne hospital.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 5 March 1935, Page 4
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