PUBLIC VEHICLES

Evening Star, Issue 22450, 22 September 1936, Page 13

PUBLIC VEHICLES

TEST OF DRIVERS’ KNOWLEDGE SUGGESTED CORONAL COMMENT [Fisk United Press Association.*] AUCKLAND, September 21. Criticism of the lack of an exacting test to ensure that bus drivers handle their vehicles with the utmost skill and expediency in cases of emergency was voiced by Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., coroner, at the inquest into the death of Brian Kennedy, aged five, a son of J. Kennedy, of Point Chevalier, who suffered fatal injuries when knocked down by a motor bus in Point Chevalier ror:l on August S. The coroner said one expected children under six to be heedless and careless, and apparently the deceased ran out heedlessly in front of the bus. The bus driver was unable to help him at all, as he was unable to toil what distances he required at certain speeds to stop his bus. He could only surmise. “ I think there should bo a test for knowledge of drivers in handling their vehicles,” the coroner said. “ Public safety on the roads and in the buses themselves depends on the knowledge and skill of the bus drivers in any emergency.” A verdict was returned that the boy died from shock and internal injuries as the result of being accidentally knocked down by a bus.