MOTORING FATALITIES.
VERDICTS AT INQUESTS.
DRIVERS NOT TO BLAME. [BT TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Monday. Two inquests into the deaths, of victims of motor fatalities were held to-day. Regarding Mrs. Mary Jane Lihtern, who was killed in Laniuton Quay by a motorcar when passing from behind) a tramcar, the coroner, Mr. Page, S.M., returned a verdict of accidental death, and said had she taken ordinary care the accident might not have happened- There was no neglect or. the part of the owner of the car. Pedestrians did . not take enough care. The coroner also urged the need for definite crossing places. The coroner, Mr. Hunt, returned a verdict of accidental death regarding Clifford James Pritchard Little, a boy killed by a motor-lorrv at Miramar on October 20. Evidence showed that the boy tried to catch hold of the lorry and fell, the result being that the lorry went ovsr his head. No blame was attachable to the driver.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18235, 31 October 1922, Page 6
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