ROAD FATALITY.
DRIVER OF MOTOR TRUCK BEFORE COURT. BERIOUB CHARGE PREFERRED. NEW PLYMOUTH, July 20. The death of Leonard Wylie Blanchard, aged 26, and serious injury to Thomas Jury through the collision of their motor cycle and a truck, alleged ly driven by Samuel Edward George Hawke, aged 46, resulted in the appearance of Hawke in Court to-day, charged with causing the death of Blanchard by negligently driving a truck on the main road at Oakura on June 11. Only eleven of the 30 witnesses for the Crown were heard to-day and the case will be continued to-morrow. An inquest into the death of Blanchard is being taken in conjunction with the hearing. Blanchard nod Jury were found lying on the road beside their motor cycle. The other vehicle allegedly concerned in the collision did not stop. It was not till some time after the acccident that Hawke was arrested. Elaborate plans and enlarged photographs of the locality and the mudguard of the motor vehicle were among the exhibits in Court.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 21 July 1936, Page 5
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