SEIZURE AT WHEEL.
MOTOR DRIVER'S DEATH. CAR RUNS ACROSS FOOTPATH. STOPS IN VACANT SECTION. WIFE AND CHILD UNHURT. A heart seizure which occurred while he was driving his motor-car in Queen Street, Onehuriga, yesterday afternoon caused the death of Mr. Edward Louis Beasley, aged 50, a railway surfaceman, of 31, Grey Street, Onehuriga. Mr. Beasley, who was accompanied by his wife and young child as passengers, was driving up Queen Street in the direction of tho fire brigade station when the seizure occurred. Tho car swerved and took a diagonal course across the street. It mounted the footpath and came to rest in a depression in a vacant section. Persons in the vicinity who witnessed the behaviour of the car went to the scene, but found that Mr. Beasley was dead. Neither Mrs. Beasley nor the child was hurt and the car escaped damage, having stopped on all four wheels. An inquest was opened later by the coroner, Mr, D. A. Sutherland. After evidence of identification had been taken the inquiry was adjourned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20723, 17 November 1930, Page 8
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