UNFIT MOTORISTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 212, 23 September 1937, Page 12

UNFIT MOTORISTS

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Coroner Suggests Medical Certificates

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PALMERSTON N., Last Niglit."C'loser attention will have to be givon lo pliv.sical litnoss of drivers of cars," said the Coroner, Mr A. J. Graham, at an inquest, when evidence was given by a medical witness that he WOuJd not have passed as physically lit to drive a car a man wliom lie exaniined in January last and who was killed ln an accxdent last xnonth. The solicitor for tlie relative,® said that there Ought to be more scrutiny before licencea were renewed. They were just re-issued automatically on the payment of five shillings. TJhe Ooroner said that here was a ' case wherein, months earlier than the i fatality occurred, the driver was not 1 con9idered eligible for a certxflcate of ' physical fitness. He was not satisiled 1 that all car drivers were in a fit pliysical condition. The inquest concerned the death of \ •lo hn Thomas, aged 65, of Bunnythorpe, i who was killed when his car crashed [ into the Mangaone stream on Augnst ! 24. The Coroner said tliat the cause J of the accident was difBcult to deter- ! minc, but was due to one of two vea- ' sons. Eitlier tlie deceased was suft'ering from the efl'ects of liquor or had i a sudden attaek of vortigo due to the j condition of hie healtK