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HILL COUNTRY COLLISION. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, June 19. After a hearing lasting two days Martha Jane Hill was awarded £Bl3 15s Id damages, Haxel Dashwood Sim £4OO, Wilfred Joseph Sim £126 13s, and William Smith Mac Gibbon £79 5s lOd against Tracy Gougli and Charles David Gough for injuries received in a motor collision on a hill country road in November last. It was contended that defendants were on the wrong side of the road, and seeing that a collision was inevitable preferred a head-on crash to going fin the outside of the road at a dangerous corner. As the result of the collision Mrs Hill had been permanently incapacitated from any form of activity, and Mrs Sim disfigured, while Sim lost an eyebrow. Mac Gibbon claimed only for the damages to his car.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12169, 20 June 1925, Page 4
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