ACCIDENTAL DEATH
NEW ZEALAND ER'S FATE EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST ' LONDON. Feb. 1 A coroner's jury in Paddington re* turned a verdict of accidental death id the case of Mr. Spencer H. Gollan, tha ex-New Zealand sportsman and race* horse owner, who was run orer ana killed by a motor-bus in Oxford Street on January 29. The verdict exonerated the driver of the bus. The coroner said Mr. Gollan was blind in one eye. The evidence showed thai he had stepped from a refuge in front of the omnibus, not looking where hj« was going. The driver had had 14 years 1 experience and ; held six or sevei diplomas for frecclom from accident. HI had vainlj' applied both his brakes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21717, 5 February 1934, Page 9
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