ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
(Per Press Association ) Rcefton, October 4
Mr. J. A. Montgomerie, for many years Government surveyor in Reefton, was thrown out of a trap yesterday and badly injured. Auckland, October 4.
The juty in the tram fatality case returned a verdict that the death of William Sou was due to his being crashed between the colliding tram cars; that motorman Watson, of the runaway car, did not keep a sufficient look-out considering the weather conditions ; that the lorry was insufficiently lighted. The Coronor asked whether the jury blamed solely the motorman or the lorry driver. The foreman said the jury had arrived at a unanimous decision and that was their verdict. The coroner:' Well, I can only accept it as it is.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 42, 4 October 1911, Page 2
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