HEAD-ON COLLISION.
HEAVY DAMAGES -AWARDED,
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) - CHRISTCHURCH, Friday.
After a hearing lasting,two days, Martha Jane Hill was awarded £Bl3 15s Id damages, Hazel Dashwood Sim £40(1, Wilfred Joseph. Sim £l2O 135,. and William Smith Mac Gibbon £79 5s lOd, against Tracy Gough and Charles David Gough, for injuries received in a motor collision on a hill country road in N<fl vember last.
It was contended that defendants were on the wrong side of the road, and seeing that a collision was inevitable, preferred a head-on crash to going' on the outside of the road at a dangerous corner. ■■ ■■ „
As the result of the collision, Mr® Hill had been permanently incapacitated from any form of ‘activity, and Mrs Sim disfigured, while Sim lost ant eyebrow. Mac Gibbon claimed only for the damages to his car.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 June 1925, Page 4
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