HUTT ROAD ACCIDENT.
MOTORIST'S EXPLANATION".
WELLINGTON, This Day.
A young man named Walter Frederick Marris reported to the police that while driving a motor car near Ngahauranga on Saturday evening lie struck some one. He thought it was a cyclist and that the blow was only a
glancing one. Two ladies in the car were very nervous, so when 011 stopping some distance further on he looked back he saw some people attending to a man on the roadway. He took the ladies on to Petone, left them there and returned to the scene of the striking. By that time, however, there •was no sign of the injured man. Marris then went back to Petone, picked up the ladies and continued his- journey.
This is a sequel to the finding of the man Gerald who was badly injured on the Hutt Road on Saturday evening. The hospital reports that his condition is still serious.—Press Assn,
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Northern Advocate, 26 August 1924, Page 5
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