PASSENGER'S DEATH
CHARGE AGAINST MOTORIST DISMISSAL BY MAGISTRATE [by TELEGRAPH —PRESS association] CHRISTCIIURCH. Thursday A charge of reckless driving causing death,, brought by the police against George Arthur Kirner, bootmaker, was dismissed by Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court. The man who died as a result of the accident was James .McCarthy, and an inquest into his death was held with Mr. Levvev as coroner. Kirner, McCarthy and two other men, James David Cossar and Clifford Hughes, were travelling along the I mam west road about lL a.m. on September 12 when the car overturned near West Melton. McCarthy, who was in the back of the car, suffered a fracture of the neck from which ho died in hospital. The coroner's verdict was that McCarthy had died from broneho-pneu-monin and a fracture of the neck, the injuries being received when the car in which ho was riding got out of control at West Melton and capsized, causing McCarthy to strike his head against some part of the inside of the car.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22878, 5 November 1937, Page 14
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