MYSTERIOUS ACCIDENT
CAR THAT RAN OFF ROAD EVIDENCE AT INQUEST (United P'cn Aawnrtatinn) WELLINGTON. This Day A verdict that Peter Imlay Frederick Saunders, aged 21, accountant, died of injuries to the skull and laceration of the brain in a motor-car that ran ott the Pahautanui road and capsized on 14th May. was returned by the Coroner Mr Gilbertson. He described the accident a h a mysterious thing. "The driver orobably dropped off to sleep. That is the only possible explanation of it ” In evidence, the driver, Sydney Archibald Wiren. said that (he car belonged lo Shelly Shelly was asleep in the pack seat almost all the way from Wanganui and deceased, who was in front with witness, dozed off also and would have been asleep at the time ol the accident Both witness and Shelly said that they had not. stopped at any ootcls and had no drink in the car or before leaving on the trip.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 5 July 1939, Page 7
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