MOTOR SMASH.
TWO MEN KILLED. CAR-DRIVER CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELIGEAM.) HAMILTON, November 8. The inquest concerning the deaths of two single men, John Ward and Walter Thornton Reynolds, who were killed in an accident on tho night of October 15th at Hamilton, was concluded today when the Coroner (Mr Wyvern Wilson) returned a verdict that tho men died from injuries sustained in a collision between a motor-cycle ridden by them and a car driven by a young man named Blair, who caused their deaths by driving the car in a manner and at a speed reokless and dangerous. Blair was subsequently charged with driving the car in a manner dangerous to the public, thereby causing the deaths of the two men. A remand was granted until November 15th, Blair being allowed bail in £2OO. Blair came from Australia, had only been in the Dominion six weeks when the accident occurred, and did not have a driver's license.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19153, 9 November 1927, Page 14
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159MOTOR SMASH. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19153, 9 November 1927, Page 14
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