DEATH FROM INJURIES
PEDESTRIAN HIT BY CAR
COMMENT BY CORONER
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day
In returning a verdict that Vivian Claude Parker, aged 37, a barman, died at Island Bay on August 22 from severe head injuries he sufFeicd by being knocked down by a car driven by Thomas Francis Hooper, the coroner, Mr. E. Gilbertson, said he was satisfied the windscreen was in a dimmed state, partly through us condition and partly through the weather, which was stated to be foggy and visibility was not good. Hooper said that the cat, a / h.p. model, was made in 1931-32. lhe windscreen was of shatterproof glass and the bottom right-hand corner was cracked where it hard been struck by a stone. He said the screen was of a yellow tinge throughout, n was not splodgy as he admitted such screens sometimes were. It was not nusty enough at the time of the accident to have the wiper working. A police constable said the screen was dirty and impaired vision except where the wiper had been working. Visibility on that evening was not good.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20054, 28 September 1939, Page 7
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184DEATH FROM INJURIES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20054, 28 September 1939, Page 7
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