GENERAL NEWS
CRUSHED TO DEATH COMMENT BY CORONER For Fress Association. CHRISTCHURCH, November 26. ‘‘l think I ought to comment on tlif practice of two people handling a car and neither knowing what the other intends doing as regard the gears and sliced, etc., said the coroner at the inquest on Mrs Matilda Featherstone, who was killed at Sumner on October 24th. Ho returned an open verdict that tho woman met her death through being crushed against a monument hv a car driven jointly by Henry Neale and William John Luff. In further comment the coroner said that the joint control of the car had considerably contributed to the accident in the present case. It was beyond doubt that when Lugg put the engine into gear he must have put it into top gear instead of into low. The speed which the car attained proved this. “I cannot comment too strongly on the dangerous practice adopted on this occasion,” concluded the coroner. On October 24th last Mrs Matilda Fentherston, af Kaiapoi. met her death at Sumner through being crushed by a motor-car against a seat on the feeplanado on which she and her daughter, Mrs Martin, were sitting.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12615, 27 November 1926, Page 5
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198GENERAL NEWS New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12615, 27 November 1926, Page 5
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