STRUCK WHILE ON GROUND.
(:AF< HUNS OVER MAN. FATALITY AT WELLINGTON. r p ! Tri.F.GJJAFH. —vreSs association. J . WELIifJvGTON, Thursday. Ihe 1 oroner to-day found that 'Thomas O Byrne 1 aged 53, a single man, was kilbd by being knocked down by a. motortruck d then run over by a motor-car rJrivfif, ly some person unknown. I'redfMi' k ,T. Hickman, a. poultry farmer f,oer Huft, said that O'Byrne appeared to walk into the side of the truck wjtne;--, \> •):, driving past Lainbfon station. Wine:- estimated the speed at six miles ? ri hour, ||f. v.as positive the truck did not. pass over O Bvrne's body. Visibility very bad and there were few people ahr,i|t I! McCahon. a tunneller. said he v,ar, <! v v ing to laf'h a. train arid he saw an cbiert, Ivi 11 gon the ground. He saw a motor-,.-4r approach and pass over it with bofh k and front wheels. The car A ''3s travelling about, 20 miles an hour, snd it, rj]i| not stop. bhe inecliral evidence was to the effect |hat it v,)-. more, likely that, O'Byrne's ■injuries were, i aused by being run over 7'hilp on the ground than through walking into Hickman's truck.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20721, 14 November 1930, Page 13
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