A WOMAN’S DEATH.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18023, 19 May 1930, Page 8

A WOMAN’S DEATH.

FOLLOWING MOTOR ACCIDENT. VERDICT AT THE INQUEST. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. On April 25 a car driven by Albert Leonard Smith crashed through a fence, struck a house, and overturned. One of three passengers, Dorothy Mary Middle.ton, had a lacerated wound in the. thigh. Ten days later'tetanus set in, and she died on May 6. At the inquest the medical evidence was that deceased had a disease which reduced her resistance. The hospital house surgeon said that when admitted on May 5 the wound was covered by a piece of dirty linen. The Coroner found that the car was driven at a speed greatly in excess of a safe speed approaching an intersection, also that the car which Smith manoeuvred to avoid was also travelling fairly fast. He commented that it was miraculous that nobody else was hurt. He was satisfied that the doctor who first attended the womaji did so properly. He suggested that she go to hospital, but she refused, and he could not compel her. A verdict was returned of death from heart failure, with tetanus following injury to the thigh, the result of a motor car driven by Smith overturning.