SCHOOLBOY KILLED

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 27, 23 April 1927, Page 1

SCHOOLBOY KILLED

RAN INTO motor lorry CORONER’S WARNING «| have been asked to publicly j paW attention to the state of Point Chevalier Road, and to caution all users to be specially careful while it is undergoing repair.” This warning to drivers of all vehicles using Point Chevalier Road was given by the Coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., this morning at the influest on Ronald Arthur Turner, a boy years old, whom he found had died J a result of injuries received through being accidentally knocked down by a motor lorry. No blame was attachable to the driver. Harold James Wooller, headmaster 0 f the Point Chevalier School, said rhat he and several other teachers were on the bus which left Pitt Street at 8.30 a.m. The deceased lad and his sister got on the bus at the corner of Great North Road and Point Chevalier Road. When the bus stopped at the corner of Te Ra Road to allow them to alight, a motor lorry suddenly appeared, passing the stationary bus. “I heard no horn,” said Mr. Wooller. -The lorry was on the concrete and on the right-hand side of the road. I then saw the injured lad lying on the road near me.” The driver of the lorry. Thomas Foulkes, said that he was driving a two-ton motor lorry with two tons of cement on board. Four boys ran out from the front of the bus, one of them running right into his running board. T had no opportunity of avoiding the accident. I blew my horn before attempting to pass the bus as this was school time for the children. “I hopped off my truck and ran back to the lad who appeared to be seriously hurt.” Norman Nelson Giles, the driver of the bus, saw the boy run right into the lorry, he said. The lorry was not travelling at more than eight or ten miles an hour.