SEQUEL TO FATAL ACCIDENT
VAN DRIVER PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO NEGLIGENT DRIVING. (United Press Association.) Blenheim, September 10. Arising out of a fatal accident at Blenheim on August 25, in which a young man, Herbert Arthur Wright, was killed, Arthur James Smith, the driver of a butcher’s van, pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate’s Court this morning to a charge of negligent driving, causing death. The accused was committed for trial at the next sessions of the Supreme Court. According to statements to the police, accused found Wright lying injured on the road. The evidence of a small boy was that a van similar to that of accused’s passed him and he then saw a bicycle light, with which the van appeared to collide. The police gave evidence that they found spectacles on the floor of the van and marks on the mudguards. The inquest followed the police case, the Coroner (Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M.), returning an open verdict.
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Southland Times, Issue 22992, 11 September 1936, Page 9
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