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CAR LEAVES ROAD

PASSENGER KILLED EVIDENCE AT INQUEST [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] TAIHAPE, Friday After hearing the evidence at an inquest to-day into the death of Rosclla Liddicoat, of Mangawcka, who was fatally injured when the motor-car in which she was a passenger .went over a bank near Utiku about eight miles south of Taihape following a collision with another cur last December, the district coroner, Mr. IS. Loader, returned a verdict that death was due to a fractured skull as tho result of a blow on the head.

The driver of the car which left the road:, R. C. Henderson, said ho had been blind in one eye sinco he was 14 years fcld. This fact was known to the examining officer when witness applied for a driving licence. He attributed the cause of tbe accident to bad luck—and declared that the defect in his eyesight was in no way responsibly for the fatality. The corner where his car left the road was a bad one. He denied negligence of any description. Robert Harding, who was one of the passengers in Henderson's car, attributed the accident to the narrowness of the road.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 16

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CAR LEAVES ROAD New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 16

CAR LEAVES ROAD New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 16