NEGLIGENT DRIVING
MAN RECEIVES FATAL INJURIES
BROTHER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
(Per United Press Association.)
Palmerston North, April 17
Maurice Clement Albrey O’Donnell, a schoolmaster of Mataixau, was committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court at Palmerston North on a charge of negligently driving a car causing death.
The case arose out, of an accident on Ihakara Hill near Shannon when a threeseater car driven by defendant collided with another ear driven by a youth, named Ronald Henry Dunbar King, and as a result, went over a steep bank on the side of the road. The ear is stated to have fallen sheer for 20 feet and to have come to rest 84 feet down the slope where defendant’s brother, Thomas Francis Joseph O’Donnell, who owned the car in which he had been a passenger, was found to have sustained severe injuries. He was removed to the Palmerston North Hospital where after lingering on for eight days, he died on January' 31.
At the inquest the corner, in returning a verdict of accidental death, commented adversly upon the handling of the car by defendant.
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Southland Times, Issue 20662, 18 April 1929, Page 7
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187NEGLIGENT DRIVING Southland Times, Issue 20662, 18 April 1929, Page 7
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