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INQUEST ON VICTIM DANGER OF DIMMING HEADLIGHTS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, December 2. . “I think the dimming of the car’s headlights was a great factor in causing the accident/* said the Coroner, Mr L K. Hunt, S.M., in returning a verdict of accidental death at the inquest concerning the death of George Aldridge, pastor, of West 6treet-Church. of Christ. > The deceased was knocked down by a motor-car in Dominion road on October 12th and died later- in the Auckland Hospital. Mr Northcroft said the driver could not appear as he had been seriously ill since. the accident. In a statement to the police the driver said he dimmed his lights on account of the approach of two other cars. He swerved to avoid the deceased, but could not-effect a total clearance. Mr Hunt said he found nothing to
show that there was any negligence on the part of the driver. “The time has come,** he said, “when the authorities will have to do something in the matter of dimming headlights, tam quite sure that if the deceased could have seen a ray of light from the car the accident would not have occurred. The man would be alive to-day if the lights had not been dimmed/*
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12620, 3 December 1926, Page 8
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208MOTOR FATALITY New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12620, 3 December 1926, Page 8
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