EXACTING TEST URGED
DRIVERS OF BUSES OPINION OF CORONER (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Criticism of the lack of an exacting test to ensure that bus drivers handle their vehicles with the utmost skill and expediency in cases of emergency was voiced by Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., as coroner at an inquest into the death of Brian Kennedy, aged five years, a son of Mr. J. Kennedy, of Point Chevalier, who suffered fatal injuries when knocked down by a motor bus on the Point Chevalier road on August 8. The coroner said that one expected children under the age of six years to be heedless and careless, and apparently the deceased ran out heedlessly in front of a bus. The bus driver was unable to help him at .all, as he was unable to tell w'hat distances he required at eertain speeds to stop his bus. Hecouldonlysurmi.se. “I think there should be a test for knowledge of drivers in the handling of their vehicles,” the coroner said. “The public safety on roads and in the buses themselves depends on the knowledge and skill of the bus drivers in an emergency.”
A verdict was returned that the boy died from shock and internal injuries, as a result of being accidentally knocked down by a bus.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 5
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