GIRL KILLED BY MOTOR-CAR

Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1930, Page 9

GIRL KILLED BY MOTOR-CAR

CORONER FINDS NEGLIGENCE, .

FATALITY AT SANDON BRIDGE.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' ; • - Palmerston'North, October 2. ' At the inquest into the death of Betty Francis Alberty, aged seven, .who died in hospital on September .23, six days after a motor accident at Oroua Downs, Charles John Dunbar Skinher, Feildingj • z gave evidence that oii ’ September 15 he passed a grader working on the Sandon-Himitangi Road. He wa£ not travelling at more than 20 miles an / . hour. When the girl darted out right in front of the car he swerved to the right to inks her, but did not apply the ■ brakes, a© it was too late and the, bumper caught her. ■_.'/. William Gilbert Hope, grader driver, said Skinner’© car when -level with the grader was travelling at 30 to 35 miles an hour. The girl ran across 30 yards in front, the car swerved to ;the right, struck her and pulled up 72 yards further on. Had the brake© been applied the accident would not have occurred. The coroner returned a verdict that deceased died following a fractured skull sustained tfii-ough being knocked down by a car negligently driven by Skinner.