GEAR-CHANGE FAILURE
ACCIDENT AT PLIMMERTON EVIDENCE AT INQUEST Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. At an inquest on Janet Lewis, aged 18, who was killed as the result of a motor-car capsizing: near Plimmerton last Sunday, medical evidence indicated that death was due to shock as a result of internal injuries. The driver, Lionel Charles White, aged 22, sAid the car, a two-seater with a dickey seat, had three passengers in the front seat. Deceased was sitting on the knees of another girl. There were also two men in the dickey seat. He attempted to change gear on a hill, but missed. The car ran back before he could apply the brake and capsized. The driver said he had room to manipulate the levers, but the road was very narrow and one wheel went over the bank. A verdict that death was due to misadventure was returned.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 532, 8 December 1928, Page 13
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