CAR OVER BANK
DRIVER TO BE CHARGED [ Ter Press Association. ] PALMERSTON N., April 17. Maurice Clement Albrcy O’Donnell, schoolmaster, of Matamau, has been commixed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court at Palmerston North on a charge of negligentlydriving a car ,\nd causing death. The case aro.se out of an accident on the .Ihakara hill near Shannon, when a three-seater car driven by defendant collided with another car driven by a youth named Ronald Henry Dunbar King, and as a result went ovpr a steejj bank on the side of the road. The car is stated to have fallen sheer for 20 feet, and to have come to rest 84 feet down the slope, where defendant’s brother, Thomas Francis Joseph O’Donnell, who owned the car, and in which he had been a passenger, was found to have sustained severe injuries. He was removed to Palmerston North Hospital, where, after lingering on for eight days, ho died on January 31. At the inquest, the c <roner, in returning a verdict of accidental death, commented adversely upon the handling of the car by defendant.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 92, 18 April 1929, Page 7
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