INQUEST ON CHILD

Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1932, Page 6

INQUEST ON CHILD

A MOTOR MYSTERY. (Per Pi*ess Association—' Copyright.) WELLINGTON, August 18.Medical evidence not being, available until to-piorrow, the coroner was upable to close an inquest to-day ipio the death of Robert Emms j aged 51 years, rivho was knocked down in Tina- 1 kori Road on the evening of August 3rd by a taxi' driven by John \Villiam Ashford, and who died in the hospital three days later Ashford said that at the time of the accident he was proceeding at twenty miles an hour He felt a slight, bump, and thought lie had struck a stpne or a rut, but he noticed some object slidng across the bitumen. He pulled up, and was horrified to find it was a child lying unconscious. He did not know . where the - ;cllild. had come from-. It was - raining at , -the tiiiib, ; and the : visibility was'-'-very "bad on either side of his, handlisKts. “The only explanation T can offer,” he said, “is that the child stepped out from the footpath directly in front of the taxi and was too short to come into the line of vision ” Other witnesses who were in the vicinity at the time of the accident, said that-they did not actually see the boy struck. The visibility was bad at the time. - The inquest was adjourned,