BLIND SPOT ON ROAD.
WOMAN KILLED BY MOTOR BUS. EVIDENCE CONCLUDED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 21. Additional evidence was given this morning when tile inquest was resumed on Sirs Hannah, who was killed by a railway bus on the night of Qctobcr 1. Constable Quinn said the driver of the bus was perfectly sober, without a sign of liquor at all The lighting of the biis was good, but the street lighting not so good. The nearest overhead light was 00 feet away, John Henry Clark, mechanical engineer, said the direction indicator on the bus would lesson the driver’s vision, but in witness’s opinion the accident could not be attributed to the indicator. Other buses had the same kind of indicator attached. Witness was of opinion that the fatality was due to the headlights of the bus not shining directly bn the deceased, whp was in the blind spot on the road. The coroner said that matters of'imppftance had been adduced; he wpuld take tpjie to consider big verdict, and would given a written one. 1 "•
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21163, 22 October 1930, Page 10
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178BLIND SPOT ON ROAD. Otago Daily Times, Issue 21163, 22 October 1930, Page 10
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