DEATH OF BOY

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 19, 17 October 1942, Page 2

DEATH OF BOY

“It is a sad duty, which sometimes conies to coroners, to view the body of a boy who has been suddenly cut oft from' life,” said the coroner, Mr. W. G. Mcllish, when milking a finding of accidental death at the inquest on George Barron, a schoolboy, aged 12, who met his death when his trolley came into collision with a truck at the junction of Fore Street and tile Hutt Road at Kaiwarra on October 8. "They are young, said Sir. Mellish. “Thev don't reason clearly in these matters,'mid they are venturesome. I can’t see that anyone is responsible for his death but himself.” , . .. Evidence showed that the boy Barron, with others from his class at school, had been told to fetch some light wood for blackout blinds from a nearby limber yard. The headmaster had instructed them not to take their trolleys, and it was when Barron was disobeying this instruction that the accident occurred. The driver of the truck said that, the bov was not visible to him till only 15 feet away. If he had braked the vehicle the boy would have gone underneath, so lie speeded up and turned away from the approaching trolley. It hud. however, hit a back wheel. The impossibility of the 'driver's avoiding the accident was also stressed by another witness.