GIRL DIES AFTER SMASH
NEGLIGENT DRIVING ALLEGED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, June 5. Albert Leonard Smith was committed for trial on a charge of negligently driving a motor-car and thereby causing the death of Dorothy Mary .Middleton. According to the evidence, Smith was driving with Miss Middleton and others along Tasman Street at night and, to avoid another car he swerved his machine and ran over a path, through a fence, and crashed into a house. Miss Middleton received a cut on the thigh and tetanus set in. In his own statement Smith admitted that he was going 35 miles per hour. The defence was that the girl was suffering from another disease, and its connection with' tetanus was not too re; mote to implicate Smith.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 June 1930, Page 10
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