MOTOR-CAR FATALITY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1913, Page 7

MOTOR-CAR FATALITY

WOMAN DIES FROM INJURIES SENSATIONAL AFFAIR IN VICTORIA PEDESTRIANS RUN DQWN. »y Telegraph.— Press AsioclHton.— Copyright. MELBOURNE, 3rd February. A peculiar motor-car fatality occurred at Aspendale yesterday. Mrs. Donald, the wife of Dr. Donald, of Warrnacknabeal, Nurse Ryan, Miss Culshaw, and Roy Parkinson were walking in company along a road, when a motor-car dashed into them from behind. Parkinson, was knocked down and rendered unconscious. Mrs. Donald was dragged 30yds along the road and received internal injuries, from which she expired shortly afterwards. The others of the party were uninjured. The car continued on. its -course until it struck a tree, and its occupants— two men and two women— were thrown on to the roadway. Another car arrived and conveyed the four occupants of the first car to a private hospital in Melbourne. It is believed that they were not Berioualy injured. Their names were not discovered. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. DRIVER OF CAR ARRESTED, i HE MAKES A STATEMENT. (Received February 4, 9.45 a.m.) 1 MELBOURNE, This Day. In connection with the Aspendale motor fatality, Albert Lewis, driver of the car, has been arrested on a charge of manslaughter. He says that when 'he saw the light which Parkinson was carrying he tried to avoid the predestrians by pulling to the left hand, but when he swerved the car dashed into them. He had thought the light was attached to a cart, and made allowance for the Vehicle to pass. When the occupants of the car recovered from the first shock they endeavoured to help the injured.