MILLIONTH CHANCE
KfLLED BY SPARE WHEEL ; “It. is the sort'of accident that doesn’t happen once in a million times 1 ,” remarked the West Middlesex coroner at an inquest at Brentford on Miss Olive ' Maud Muriel Bowles, aged. 22, of West Ealing. She died from; injuries received through being struck by a spare wheel which fell, from a passing car when she was in a tricar.
’ Frederick Jack Godin, of Marlow, the. driver of the motor-car explained that the wheel was fastened'by a clamp with a large screw. The. clamp had moved and he could only suggest that yabration had caused it to. come loose. When he heard, of the accident he immediately went to the police. The coroner recorded a verdict of “Accidental death,” adding that it was a terrible accident, because had the woman appeared on the Bpot ten seconds sooner or later she would have esenped injury. Goffin was exonerated from blame.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1933, Page 7
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154MILLIONTH CHANCE Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1933, Page 7
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