CAPSIZE OF LORRY
MAORI CHILD KILLED i “NEVER DRIVEN BEFORE" (From Our Own Correspondent / TE KAUWUAk'A, To-day. The inquest into the circumstances surrounding the d<%itli of the four and a-half-year-old Maori boy. Charhe Nepi, who was killed v hen a motcrlorry, in which he was riding, capsized on the Te Kauwhata-Taniwha Road last week, was resumed by Mr. It. Storey, J.P., and a jury on Saturday. The driver of the lorry, Henry Tetaliua, said that rounding a oend. the lorry skidded in some loose meta! and almost simultaneously a tyre was punctured. The lorry ran off the road and capsized over a iank. It rolled over twice. Deceaseds head wa3 crushed by the lorry, the child being dead when picked up. The witness said he had never driven a motor • vehicle before. Another native showed him how to start the lorry. John Ratihi, who was sitting next to the driver, and who produceJ a driver’s licence for the r_ast year, sa.d he was not teaching Tetahua to drive, as he himself could not drive that particular make of lorry. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and added a rider that the accident might have been avoided if the driver had had more experience.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 336, 23 April 1928, Page 10
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205CAPSIZE OF LORRY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 336, 23 April 1928, Page 10
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