MOTORIST HAD FIT.
Epileptic Causes Twenty-four Casualties. LONDON, November 23. A constable related in Court how a motorist, in an epileptic fit, kept biting him when he tried to take out his artificial teeth. Frank Hills, whose car ran into the crowd outside Buckingham Palace, during the changing of the Guard on October 6, killing four men and injuring more than twenty others, was remanded on charges of manslaughter, occasioning bodily harm, dangerous driving, and fraudulently obtaining a motor license. According to the evidence, it was apparently owing to an epileptic fit that he had not control of the car, which nearly collided with others prior to the accident, after which he was found injured and apparently unconscious. lie had denied being an epileptic when he applied for a license. It was stated that he remembered nothing of the accident “ except a frightful bang ”.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 934, 2 December 1933, Page 1
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