FATAL COLLISION
OPEN VERDICT RETURNED CORONER'S POINTED COMMENT (Per United Press Association) HAMILTON, Nov. 30. "The cause of. the collision in which a valuable life was lost, in fact, sacrificed, is obvious, I think, and it will no doubt form the subject of a further investigation," commented Mr F. W. Platts, coroner, today when giving his verdict at the inquest into the death of Maurice Desmond Kelly, aged 23, a drover, of Frankton, who was killed when a truck driven by Edward Skelton Dobbie, in which the deceased was a passenger, collided with a car driven by Ernest Roy Thornton, a labourer, on the Whatawhata-Hamilton main highway on September 3. Mr Platts returned an open verdict that Kelly died as the result of injuries received when the truck in which he was a passenger collided with a car driven bv Thornton. According to various witnesses, Thornton and his four passengers had drink that afternoon.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23671, 1 December 1938, Page 18
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