SEQUEL TO FATALITY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 276, 20 October 1938, Page 14

SEQUEL TO FATALITY.

CASE AT WELLINGTON. Per Press Association. . WELLINGTON, Oct. 19. A collision between a car driven by Douglas Blomfield Alalcom, aged 46. a minister of religion, and a cycle ridden by Stanley Hvid, a message boy, which resulted in the death of the boy, was the basis of a charge of negligent driving causing death, made against the former in the Supreme Court before Air Justice Quilliam. The Crown Prosecutor (Air AA\ H Cunningham) stated it was a peculiar case in that no eye-witnesses of the collision were to be called by the Crown. The only person who could give an account of how the collision had occurred was accused himself. The accident had occurred at Salamanca Road, near the University College. There was no suggestion that accused was driving at an unreasonable speed. The marks on the road and the position of the car after the collision showed that the collision had occurred to the right of the centre line of the ro-d.

In his statement to tire police, accused said he believed the cyclist; with the sun in his eyes, did not see the ea.r_ until it was too late to avoid the collision, which accused tried to avoid by swerving to the right. After a retirement of fifty minutes the jury acquitted accused.