FATAL COACH ACCIDENT
INQUEST ON THE VICTIMS. Br Telegraph—Prem Anoolatlon Gisborne, September 15. At the inquest concerning the deaths of Mrs. James and Thomas Bushnell, victims o! the coach accident on the Tolaga Bay Road, the medical evidence was that Mrs. James, who was a passen< ger on the coach, had her neck broken, and Bushnell, tlie driver, had died of rupture of the meningeal artery, caused by fracture of tho skull. Neilson. tho injured passenger, said the ladv and child 'were silting alongside ■the driver. AVitness was inside the .coach. On reaching tho hill neai Tatapouri, the horses broke into a gallop. AVitness saw the driver endeavouring to pull up, and then saw Mrs. James and the driver thrown off the coach as tho result of a.big heave. After; the coach had gone two chains witness jumped out. He saw that Mrs. James was dead, ana that Bushnell was injured. A verdict was returned that death ■was the result of an accident, caused by misadventure, no evidence having been addused to.show how the accident happened, and that no blame was attachable to anyone.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 301, 16 September 1919, Page 5
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184FATAL COACH ACCIDENT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 301, 16 September 1919, Page 5
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