“LOOK BEFORE LEAPING”
CORONER GIVES ADVICE TO PEDESTRIANS INQUEST IN WELLINGTON Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. “This accident shows the necessity, which is always present in these days of more and more motor traffic, for people when getting off and walking around tramcars to take very great car© to see if anything is approaching. This is a striking example of what will happen if they do not.’* With these remarks the coroner, Mr, T. B. McNeil, S.M., concluded the inquest yesterday concerning the death of James Gribben, the victim of a motor fatality at Miramar on April 15. In giving his verdict the coroner said the evidence clearly showed that the fatality happened because Gribben, when he came round the back of a tramcar, did not take the precaution of looking along the road to see if there was any approaching traffic., “The car did not run over him in any way. He simply walked into the car,” said Mr. McNeil. “I am satisfied that the driver was going at a reasonable speed, which is shown by the fact that he could pull up his car within 20 or 25 feet without any warning at all. There is nothing in the evidence to show%that the driver was in any way negligent.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 958, 29 April 1930, Page 16
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210“LOOK BEFORE LEAPING” Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 958, 29 April 1930, Page 16
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