KILLED BY A MOTOR CAR.
✓ ' THE LONGBURN FATALITY 'jM ' - tfl [bt TIXIGBAPn.—rRKSS A3SOCUXIOSf.I> • : PjcucsßOTOiT NobtHj Friday, t | Aw inqnest on tho body of Percy Kelij : [ victim of the Longbura motor accident | was opened today before Mr.' A."lk Thomson, S.M., Coroner, and a jury. ; The first witness was Mr. Dawnetf, fchs . Btatioumasfcer, -who was standing, on toB ' | road with Field when .. the latter _ wtf knocked down. Ho stated that ncsthe#.of them saw the car till, it was;*ntluß ; ten paooe of them. Deceased jumped ° a one side and witness on the otUer.-'PfV< ceased was knocked down. Wit'oesJ ( tw® * 1 the oar had two lights, but they WW JWJ very bright. Ho thought they {#ni», ;■ about forty paces. Witness saw tbedn* 1 * 1 ' of the car, who informed him that tty. car was only going at ten miles anhwWV j but witness bad replied that it appeWWr, - to bo nearer thirty miles. Both mtowl v. and deceased were sober. Witness^*®' mittod that both had had twelve drink# each during the day, four at 10-30 three at dinner time, throe at 0.00, * D l, ,1 two at 9.45 o'clock. iV -j . The jury returned a verdict to the <««»-, that the deceased met his death ta#, result of a collision with a)*"® <yVdriven by IJ. W. Milner, and th»t. eT#g ~ reasonable precaution 'had heen|WS»J®« tho driver, no blame being attachable W anyone- - '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14972, 20 April 1912, Page 8
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227KILLED BY A MOTOR CAR. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14972, 20 April 1912, Page 8
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