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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 31 March 1931, Page 16

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. xvqtjzst oir vomra »oaz> TATALZTT. (Continued from Puge ».) 3 The waggon was about fourteen If set long, added witness. He had |just got his left hand horse off the 'concrete and on to the bitumen vhen the accident occurred. The dazzling lights on the motor-ear which was approaching could have dazzled the motor-cyclist. The accident took place opposite Donald’s s (tables. William Alexander Big wood, a 1 ffjourer, of Belfast, who was also jon the cart, corroborated Ritchie’s evidence as to the cart being properly lit. All the street lights t-v ere out. Approaching Donald’s ? -stables, he heard a motor vehicle pproaching from behind. About minute later he heard a crash at \ le rear of the waggon. ~ Bigwood said that, just as the occurred a motor-car w»s iB pproaching with 'n~ b°* 'l- - ghts. He was dazzled himself by -these lights. Ernest B. Dixon, an inst - -x-ard'r at Papp-oa Prison. + 'rat the time of the accident he "e passenger in the back seat, of a v"? lotor-car coming south along the -)Hain North Road. When 300 K yards eff the horse-drawn vehicle, which 1 © was- approaching, he heard a (rash and a man was thrown ott\rards the cqr in which he was Travelling.