ROAD DANGERS.
LOGAL BODIES’ RESPONSIBILITIES. COMMENT BY CORONER. (Per United Press Association,) BLENHEIM, August C. In connection with the death of Violet Chaney, of Kaiapoi, who was killed as the result of a motor car overturning at a culvert on the Blenheim-Christ-church road, near Grassmere, on Saturday night, the coroner (Mr E. J. Hill), in returning a verdict of accidental death, .attributed the accident to the absence of any indication of the existence of a blind culvert on the road, and remarked that there were a good many such death traps throughout the country. He could see no sufficient reason for the present distinction' in the eyes of the law between the liability of factory owners in. respect of machinery and the responsibility of local bodies in respect of road dangers, and said that statutory provision should be made for railings or some such indication of. those death traps. ■ . ■
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20789, 7 August 1929, Page 9
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