HIT-AND-RUN FATALITY
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AUCKLAND. August S. The failnre of.tho police fo trace the driver and the car involved in a hit and run fatality on the niglit of March 15 was diselosed at the inquest into tlie death of Mrs. Ann Cecilia McConnicK, aged 49, of Ki]>ling Avenne, Epsom. Evidence was given by a taxi-drivev that he saw the wonian struck by a car in Manukau Koad and hurled througn the air. The car contimied and witness gave chase, but lic could not overtaKe it. The police evidence was that ovei 2000 cars had been examined withoui resultt Commenting that tlie driver of tlie car must have known he had hit something, the Coroner (Mr. Addi.-on) returned a verdiet that the woman dieo in an ambulance en route to hospitai from injuries snffered when she was struck bv an uuidentihed car. — r-m — 5
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 August 1946, Page 2
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