ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 3 June 1924, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FATAO2CY INJURED

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J&fc #he -adjourned invest oa Mrs ©owning, .& xwi&ov?, aged $65, who suo•«unJbed -to th-rough being icntwJked d<MPn %y a m^fcor car in 3£»ia»g4ta4)e tßttad on Jfey 17, the «oroner (CMr. THuKt) return^! a verdict ifafxb deceased diexl of shock following Iwstng: 'knocked do^i'* by a carrjiegligentJy (driven'by rlan Sinclair. I-nthis opin■foai^he;accident was due to the driver's ■vision "being obscusid owing -Jlo the ■w*niUscFeen 'be_ing capered wit|i moistns» -due {to rain.

Si-ndldir, w&o is 16 -^ars of age. said li© was driving his e*af£oyer's car, -having been to *^rnehunga. On cou^el's advice -witness refused io say whe^ier he liad )leaye>^to itake the ear. Hei^ad often fead: 4he o&r 'befoFe, although had no ftrcense.