INQUEST AT BLENHEIM
PEDESTRIAN KILLED AT SPRINO CREEK STRUCK BY MOTOR CAR (United Pree* Association! BLENHEIM, This Day. A conclusion that the accident occurred through deceased walking on the left hand side of the road with his back to the following traffic, was reached by the Coroner, Mr E. J. Hill, at an inquest on the death of James Reed, labourer, aged 56, who was killed on the highway at Spring Creek in the early hours of the morning on Ist January 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 and that Morgan was dazzled by the glaring headlights of an oncoming car. “It may be said that it was his duty to stop if so dazzled,” commented the Coroner, “bat we know that that is never done on • wide road such as that on which the accident occurred. The dark clothes of the deceased and the dark bitumen, added to the fact that the night waa dao-k, made it impossible for Morgan to see deceased, who evidently walked across towards the centre of the road in front of Morgan’s car.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 January 1939, Page 2
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202INQUEST AT BLENHEIM Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 January 1939, Page 2
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