ACCIDENTAL DEATH
CAR LEAVES ROAD IN FOG COMMENT BY THE CORONER [by telegraph—OWN" correspondent] TE KUITI, Friday A verdict that deceased was accidentally killed as a result of injuries received by being jammed against a fencing post when the car in which he was a passenger went over the bank on April 9, was returned by the district coroner, Mr. J?. 31. Somerville, at an inquest into the death of Mr. Horace Hartley Hedges, aged 49. The coroner added that there was no evidence of negligence on the part of tlie driver of the car, Mr. L. B. Riley. The accident occurred on the narrow and tortuous Patoto Road, near Aria, on a foggy and smoky
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23333, 29 April 1939, Page 15
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