MOTOR FATALITY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17788, 13 May 1918, Page 9

MOTOR FATALITY.

ADJOURNED INQUEST. , An adjourned inquest into the circumstances connected with the death of Thomas Trenjbath Caddy, who was hilled in Moorhouse Avenue on April 30, was held by Mr H. W. Bishop, District Coroner, on Saturday. O.wen Barker, tramway conductor, said that on the evening of April 30 he was sitting in a tramcnr and saw a motor-car come along with two large bright lights and a large red tail-'amp. Ho saw tho motor-car go in tho direction of tho railway station. It was going between seven and eight miles tin hour- On his right-hand side, in the motor-car’s light, there seemed to be a man walking very slowly, with his hands in his pockets and his head hanging down. Witness could not. see his face. The front right-hand side wheel of the motor-car seemed to catcli the man. Witness next saw the body lying on tire tramlines. The motor-car had pulled up in a very short space. Tho driver immediately got out and went to the man’s help, and hurried to a slot telephone. The affair seemed to bo purely accidental. It _ was a dark, stormy night, with driving rain, and the street lights were dim. John Hollis, student, said that he thought the car was going at the rate of about twelve miles an hour. Christopher C. Schroder, cabdrjver, said that he saw deceased about b p.m. and that deceased then was quite sober-. The Coroner returned a verdict that tho deceased died by being knocked down by a motor-car, driven by I'reuerick Buchanan.