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Keckless-Driving Charge Fails
(By Telegraph-
CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. ' A charge of reckless driving causing death, brought by the ' police against George Arthur Kirner. a bootmaker, was dismissed by Mr E. C." Levvey, S.M., in the Magistrate 's Court to-day. The man who died as a result of the accident was James McCarthy,. and an inquest into his death was concluded with Mr Levvey as eoroner. Kirner, McCarthy and two other meh, James David Cossar and Clifford Hughes, were travelling along the main west road at about 11 a.m.-on. September 12, when the cqr overtnrned near West Melton. McCarthy, who was one of the passengers in the ba,clt%f the car, suffered a f racture of" the neck from which he died in the. Christchurch Public, Hospital. The verdict returned at the inquest was that McCarthy had died from bron-cho-pneuraonia and a fracture of the neck, through injuries received when the car in which he was riding got out' of control at West Melton and capsized, causing McCarthy to strike his head against some part of the inside of the car.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 35, 4 November 1937, Page 4
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