MOTORIST’S FIT
CAUSE OP COLLISION LONDON, Nov. 20. A constable related in court to-day how a motorist, in an epileptic fit, kept luting him when he tried to take out lus artificial teeth. Frank Hills, whose car ran into tue crowd outside Buckingham Palace during tjie changing of the Guard on October o, killing four men and injuring more than 2Q others, was remanded on charges oi manslaughter, occasioning bodily harm, dangerous driving, and fraudulently obtaining a motor license. According to the evidence, it was apparently owing to an epileptic fit that he had not control of the car, which nearly collided with others prior to the accident, alter which he was found injured and apparently unconscious. 7 He had denied being an epileptic when 'die applied for a license. W as stated that he remembered nothing of the accident “except a frightful bang." '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18257, 28 November 1933, Page 9
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