PEDESTRIANS MUST TAKE CARE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 4811, 16 July 1937, Page 1

PEDESTRIANS MUST TAKE CARE.

CORONER’S REMARKS. “It seems to me that this case emphasises the big responsibility of pedestrians in these days of increasing motor traffic to exercise equal care with motorists,” stated the coroner, Mr R. J. Graham, at the close of an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Percy Dodds, aged 76, who received fatal injui’ies when he ran into a motor car at Otaki on June 6th. The evidence showed that deceased became confused by the lights of two approaching ears while he was crossing the main road at an intersection. In endeavouring to avoid the one he had come into contact with the other, which had been travelling at about 15 miles an hour. The verdict was that deceased died by laceration of the brain received through accidentally colliding ■with a car, the coroner adding that the police inquiries had indicated that the accident was entirely free from the circumstances which were too frequently associated with road accidents.