MOTOR FATALITY
VERDICT OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH (By Telegraph—Press Association) PALMERSTON N., This Day. “I confess I fiiVi it just a little bit difficult to understand why an accident of this nature should occur in broad daylight on a road where visibility is good. "From the evidence it appears that deceased was an old man wandering across the road in a. casual sort of way quite oblivious to his surroundings hut on suddenly realising danger, became confused and did the wrong tiling. I cannot find any evidence of neglect or recklessness on the part of the driver of the lorry, who apparently, under the circumstances. did all he could be reasonably expected to do. However, 1 don’t tiling Rabone was sufficiently experienced to be in charge of such a heavy motor vehicle, but that is a matter for the authorities. “I find deceased was accidently killed by a motor lorry.” This verdict was delivered by the Coroner Mr Graham at an inquest on Ernest John Wattling Matthews, aged 54, who was killed on 6th March as a result of being struck by a lorry driven on the Foxton line by Paul Rabone.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 27 March 1936, Page 5
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