LIGHTS INEFFICIENT
VERDICT AT INQUEST (Special to THE SUN) CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. A verdict that death was due to haemorrhage caused by injuries received as the result of a motor-car in which she was travelling colliding with a box-cart, neither vehicle having an 'efficient light at the time, returned at the adjourned inquest on Mrs. Elizabeth Esther Bowman, wife of William Bowman, FernsMe, who was killed in a collision at Flaxton on July 13. Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., was coroner.
Evidence by six witnesses showed that at about 5.45 p.m. the car, driven by deceased’s husband, collided with a horse and cart driven by Ellis Mackinnon Walters, a farm hand, and that the shaft of the cart penetrated thd car’s windscreen and fatally injured Mrs. Bowman. The cart had no lights and the lamps of the car were defective.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 419, 30 July 1928, Page 11
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