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OLD MAN KILLED RUN OVER BY CAR [Special to “Northern Advocate”! AUCKLAND, This Day. At an inquest yesterday afternoon into the death of William Walter Dumper, aged 74, who was struck by a motor car in Mt. Eden Road on the night of September 23, the coroner, Mr F. K. Hunt, said that people, especially elderly people, should take precautions when stepping off the footpath. “Elderly people’s faculties are not as good, and their reactions are not as quick, as those of
younger people,” said the coroner,
Herbert Hassall said that he was driving a motor car along Mt. Eden Road in the direction of the city shortly after nine o’clock on the night of the accident. He was on the correct side of the road, and was travelling about 25 miles an hour, when deceased stepped off the kerb near the Crystal Palace Theatre. Witness swerved to the right, but was too late to avoid striking the deceased, who was carried along on the front of the car before he fell on the road, unconscious. *
Witness said he did not see deceased step off the footpath. It all happened so suddenly that he had no time to sound the horn. For all he knew, deceased might have stepped* out from a telegraph pole. Before he could do anything at all, Dumper had been struck.
The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death.
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Northern Advocate, 5 December 1935, Page 3
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