RUN OVER BY MOTOR CAR
CORONER EXONERATES DRIVER (United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. At the inquest ran John Marijan Milieich, who died as a result cf injuries suffered through being run over by a motor car on Friday evening, ■John Allan, tlie driver of the car, stated that he was travelling on his proper side of the road at a speed of twelve miles an hour, when a. man suddenly ran off the kerb, in front of the car. Witness sounder! his,,horn, but the man appeared to stumble and fall face downwards almost in front of the car. Tim brakes were applied, but a bump followed immediately, the light wheels evidently going over the man's body. If the man had not hesitated, but kept running straight on, he would have been all right. An. employee of deceased states that Milieich was slightly deaf and was probably running across the street to get cigarettes.
Fho Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. There was, he said, not the slightest suggestion of negligence on the part of the car driver, who exercised the utmost- care.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 7 September 1926, Page 4
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