ROT OVER BY MOTOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18713, 20 May 1924, Page 6

ROT OVER BY MOTOR.

DASH FROM ANOTHER CAR, FATALITY AT NGARUAWAHIif i fBX TELEGRAPH. —OWN u . CORBESIPONDEJItJ * - NGARUAWAHIA, Monday. * A motor accident resulting' in dthe deatH' '';. of Mrs. Evelyn Grace Stevens, a resident. ;•; of Ngaruawahia, occurred at Ngaruawahia '~$' t on Saturday evening. Mrs. Stevens, who was a widow, aged 34 years, and , tne s '% : mother of three young children, wsa 'cross-,, \: ing the main south road" near the Ngaruawahia railway station when the accident, ". occurred. Dr. .D. Martin, Mayor .of » - Ngaruawahia, was motoring home after , attending, a patient at Horotiu, A motors: ? - car was approaching in the opposite direction, v and "the" doctor dimmed his lights,'■ and had just: passed .the other - car wheir , deceased appeared in front of him. = She was too close to bo avoided, and was" knocked down. , - . i "~ v ' The sufferer was removed to hospital, * ■ but died shortly after admission. - : ; The driver "of the second car is unknown". '■";■' to the police,: who; are desirous of com-* . municating with him and ascertaining his V v version of what occurred.'

The deceased . was a'daughter of Mr,' S. Saulbrey, a well-known.settler in the ' Ngaruawahia district. * ' An inquest was opened ' before. Mr. ' H.' A. Young,' S.M., and after formal evidence {of identification had been given, was adjourned sine die. -*