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negligence alleged LORRY-DRIVER FOR T,R IA L FATAL PLUNGE INTO CREEK [FROM OOTI OWN CORRESPONDENT] MORRINSVILIiE, Thursday A chnrge of negligent driving, thereby causing the death of two persons, was preferred against Athol William Pahl, iorrv-driver, aged 24, married, of Morrinsvillo, in the Morrinsvillo Magistrate's Court to-day. The charge was a secjuol to a motor accident on tho jUorrinsvillo-Tahuna highway about 4 a.m. on September 25, when n motor-ear struck a concrete culvert and somersaulted into a stream. Two of tho passengers, George Trevor Paid of Tahuna, a brother of the accused, and Jack Meta, of Walton, were, trapped in the car under tho water and lost their lives. Tho accused resorved his defcnco and was committed to the Supremo Court at Hamilton for trial. Hail was allowed. At an inquest held on November 17 tho coroner returned a verdict that tho deceased were accidentally killed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23228, 23 December 1938, Page 14
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