KILLED BY MOTOR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 April 1922, Page 4

KILLED BY MOTOR.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER-

(BY TJ^KGIIAPH— PJJESS ASSOCIATION.)* TK l + i j*ISBOI^E, April 13. IJie death of a smgle woman named trances Jean McCarthy, 27 years of age, tormetl the subject of an inquest before Mr J. S. Barton, coroner. The evidence showed that the deceased and. a girl companion- were walking home, at night on the lr correct side with bicycles, on March 7, and were run into by a motor car occupied by two young men and two girls. The coroner returned a verdict that death was the result of injuries received on March 7, when she was rim clown at night by a motor car, which, at the Jime was in the joint control of bidney Hirst Forbes and Albert Hector Charles. The coroner added that "it would seem necessary to rouse a greatersense of responsibility for the protection of the public. The evidence established that the carwas insufficiently lighted, and the night, was fairly dark. The car was travelling fairly fast, and its lights threw nobeam m front) but threw Ught m th& side only, and that the driver did not, see the deceased until the car was. practically in contact with her. The coroner felt it his duty as coroner to* say that evidence showed a state of things that can only be described as-. shocking, when looked at as the possible standard of conduct by motor cardrivers towards other users of the roadForbes and Charles were subsequently charged with manslaughter^ and were remanded for a week. Bail was allowed in each case in £150 eacbt and sureties of £150