PEDESTRIAN’S DEATH.
CORONER’S FINDING
Per Press Association. BLENHEIM, Jan. 24
The conclusion that the accident occurred through deceased walking on the left hand side of the road with his back to following traffic was reached by the Coroner (Mr E. J. Hill) at the inquest on James Reed, a labourer, aged 56, who was killed on his way to Spring Creek in the early hours of the morning of January 1 as the result of being struck by a motor-car driven by Alick Henry Morgan, of Marshlands. The Coroner found that the speed of the car was not excessive. Morgan was dazzled by the glaring headlights of an oncoming car. “It may be said it was bis duty to stop if he was so dazzled, but we know that it is never done on a wide road such as that on which the accident occurred. .The dark clothes of deceased and the dark bitumen, added to the fact that the night was dark made it impossible for Morgan to see deceased, who evidently walked across towards the centre of the road in front of Morgan’s car,” added the Coroner.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 47, 24 January 1939, Page 6
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