HIGHWAY COLLISION.
COMMENT BY CORONER. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, March 14. A finding that death was due to gas gangrene as the result of infection after injuries received in an accident was returned by the Coroner (Mr E. D. Mosley) at the inquest into the death of Percy Reynolds Philpott, aged 20, a motor-cyclist. Philpott, said the Coroner, was injured in a collision between his ’motor-cycle, on the correct side of the Main North Road, on January 30, and a motor-car driven by James McGivern, a retired farmer, who was on the incorrect side.
“I am quite satisfied from the evidence that the motor-car driven by McGivern should not have been in a position to place deceased in peril. The road ivas a beautifully straight one for about three-quarters of a mile. In this case a motor-car was travelling 25 miles an hour and another car pulled out and tried to pass it and saw the motor-cycle about eight chains away. There was a collision. It was entirely due to the fact that McGivern pulled out and did not take steps to avert it by dropping behind.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 14 March 1934, Page 7
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187HIGHWAY COLLISION. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 14 March 1934, Page 7
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