KILLED BY LORRY.
DRIVER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL SYDNEY, September 24. An inquest was held to-day concerning tlie deaths of a man and a boy, who were killed when a; motor lorry dashed along the footpath at Newtown early in August.
The coroner committed Percy Spittlehouse, the driver of the vehicle, for trial on a charge of manslaughter.
Travelling at a terrific speed along King Street, Newt-own, a motor lorry left the road and plunged on to the foothpath. It travelled along the pavement, splintering the plateglass windows of several shops before it finally came to rest. In its niad career the runaway lorry struck and killed a boy aged 10, and a man, while a baby girl was injured. The occupants of the lorry were thrown forward by the impact and were seriously injured. The police afterwards found two broken beer bottles and several other broken bottles on the pavement. Others, one or two intact, were discovered in the lorry,
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 227, 25 September 1929, Page 7
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160KILLED BY LORRY. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 227, 25 September 1929, Page 7
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