At the inquest concerning the death of the boy Ward, who died in eonseqaence of injuries received en the electric tramway track at Wellington, the jury returned a verdict that death was accidental, the motorman of the car being absolved from blame. In his evidence the motorman stated that just before the accident a gust of wind blew a cloud of dust up, and he was forced to momentarily bow his head and close his eyes. On looking up he saw a boy 2ft. from the front of the car. He -was unable to pull np in that distance, and the ear struck the lad down. The ear was going about four miles an hour. Just before he had shot off power and put the brake on, in or-der to go round a curve.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19050209.2.30.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 34, 9 February 1905, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
134Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 34, 9 February 1905, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Auckland Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries.
Log in