BOTH DRIVERS ERRED
FATAL MOTOR COLLISION FINDING- OF CORONER (Par Press Association.) BLENHEIM, this day. The conclusion that the accident had occurred owing to an error of judgment on the part of both drivers in estimating the distance between the vehicles was arrived at by the coroner in an inquest concerning the death of Frank Donaldson and his son, lan, who were killed in a collision between a motor car driven by Donaldson and « motor lorry driven by Frank Albert Moreland on a bridge on the Wairau Valley road on the evening of June 19. The coroner added that he felt that he should once again draw attention to the desirability of a regulation making it compulsory for all lorries to carry marker lights at night indicating their overall width. Had such lights been on the lorry on this occasion, the deceased, who had the reputation of being a careful driver would have taken extreme care when approaching the bridge to make way for the lorry, knowing by the lights that it was a lorry coming towards him.
Death, in the coroner’s opinion, had been caused by the overhanging edge of the lorry’s platform striking the deceased on the head.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19373, 10 July 1937, Page 15
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