MOTOR CAR FATALITY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1962, 22 December 1906, Page 3

MOTOR CAR FATALITY.

JURY EXONERATES THE DRIVER PRKSS ASSOCIATION Wellington, last oight. Tho ooronor, in summing up to tho jury at the inquost on Mrs Konsington, said that on tbe oooasion of this acoidont tho ladios hod not tho elighloat in'lmatlon

»ha» anything would oross thoir path. To him it appeared that In suoh a oaso when a vohiolo oamo auddonly round a oornor and did damago, thoro was something blamoworthy in the ootion o{ the persons driving tho oar. The question was whether tbo oar turned tho oornor with proper precautions to provont injury, So far as he could make out, when tho ladies firs* s *w the oar coming, it could not bnvo boon more than 24 foot from them. If sa they bad just a few sooonds to got out oi tho way. Ought not tho driver, instead of risking, tho ohanoo of tho ladios going fast or slow aoroas tho road, to have stoppo 1 dead until they were Bafely aoross ? It soemod to him that it was groat rashness to turn the oornor at 12 or 15 miles an hour. Tho jury, after au horn’s deliberation, returned tho following vordiot: "Wo are unanimously of opinion that Mis Kensington mol bor death by aooidmt and misadventure, by being kcooked down by a motor firo oDgino, and that no b amo i ■ attachable to the driver of tho engine, uwo are oonvinood from tho ovidrnoo that ho saw a oloar oourao when turning into Bowon street. Wo are of opinion tha' fire ongino warnings aro not dislinol,' nougb from olroirio tram warning bells; that something that should bs rooognised as a fire engine alarm should bo proourod, and that stringent regulations should bo brought into foroo regulating tho speed of motor vchioles.” Tho jury tendered their eiDooro sympathy with the beroavod family. Tho ooronor said ho was bound to accept the verdict, but he wished tos3y he disagreed with it, particularly in view of the ovideuoo tendered regarding tho rate cf speed at which the engine roueded Bowen street oornor.