COLLISION WITH CAR
ACTION FOR DAMAGES FAILS By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, November 16. An accident in the Hataitai traffic tunnel when a lad of 17 bicycling home was severely injured in a collision with a motor-car was the subject of an action for damages brought before a common jury in the Wellington Supreme Court to-day. The Chief Justice was on the bench, and £905/11/6 damages was unsuccessfully claimed by Patrick Whitman through his father, J. P. Whitman, a relief worker, from Ivan Edward Rawnsley, a motor dealer, i of Lower Hutt. The accident occurred about seven months ago. The boy was cycling through the tunnel when a motor horn sounded behind him and a car collided with him. The rider’s thigh was broken and the leg permanently shortened. The jury found that there had been no negligence on defendant’s part.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19959, 17 November 1934, Page 7
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140COLLISION WITH CAR Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19959, 17 November 1934, Page 7
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