DOMINION ITEMS.
LBY TELEGRAPH PER PRESS ASSOCIATION ( A MOTOR TRAGEDY. . CHRISTCHURCH. March 22. On February 27th a motor car containing three persons, Gladstone McItines, his wife, and Thomas Edmund Gray, collided with a tramway pole at the edge of the road near the hospital, and after the impact. Gray, who had been sitting on the left side of the front seat, nearest the pole, was found Vying on the footpath. He was taken into the hospital, where he died from cerebal injuries next morning. At the inquest to-day, tjie driver of the car, Mid lines, said that the accident was caused hv a hoy riding a bicycle across the footpath in front of the car. In order to avoid running the hoy down, he kept further to the left than he otherwise would have done, and thus struck the pole at the edge of the footpath. The car was damaged, but witness and his wife were not hurt. AA’itness assumed that Gray must have jumped, or been thrown from the car, and must have fallen heavily. The verdict was that death was due to Gray being thrown out of a motor car. which collided with a post to avoid a boy, no blame being attachable to the driver.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1927, Page 2
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208DOMINION ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1927, Page 2
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