MOTOR-CAR RAN OVER SCHOOLGIRL.
WAS AGENT GUILTY OF DRIVING NEGLIGENTLY?
Per Press Association.
PALMERSTON NORTH, Oct. 15.
A sequel to a fatal accident at Oroua Downs on September 15 was heard in the Police Court, when Charles John Dunbar Skinner, an indent agent of Feilding, was charged with driving negligently on the Ilimatangi-Sanson Road, thereby causing the death of a schoolgirl named Betty Francis Albery. Senior-Sergeant Whitehouse, for the police, stated that on the date of the accident a number of children were on their way home from school. A boy named Albery ran across the road in front of the grader. The boy’s sister, aged seven years, went over to him. In so doing, she was struck by defendant’s car. She sustained injuries resulting in her death.
W. G. Hope, who was manipulating a tractor at the rear of the grader, said that he estimated the speed of the car at from thirty to thirty-five miles an hour when passing the grader. It did not appear to slow down when striking the child.
Defendant pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial, bail being allowed.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19201, 15 October 1930, Page 9
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186MOTOR-CAR RAN OVER SCHOOLGIRL. Star (Christchurch), Issue 19201, 15 October 1930, Page 9
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