RECENT COACH FATALITIES
OPEN VERDICT RETURNED. GISBORNE. September 1
At the inquest concerning the deaths Mrs James and Thomas Bushnell, victims the coach accident on the Tolago Bay ro the medical evidence was to the effect t ■ivtrs James, a passenger, had her n broken, while Bushnell, the driver, d from, rupture of the meningeal arte caused by fracture of the skull. Mr K son, an injured passenger, said the 1< and child were sitting alongside the dri and witness was inside the coach. Rea ing the hill near Tatapouri the homes br into a gallop. Witness saw the driver deavouring to pull them up. Then he s Mrs James and the driver thrown the coach as the result of a big hea After the coach had gone two chains i ness jumped out. He saw Mrs James, d and Bushnell injured. A vgrdict was turned that death was the result of an a dent caused by misadventure, no evide havintr been adduced to show how the a dent happened, and no blame being atte able to anyone.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3419, 26 September 1919, Page 6
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