A MOTOR FATALITY.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1922, Page 4

A MOTOR FATALITY.

DEATH OF AN ELDERLY MAN. ACCIDENT IN DEVON STREET. A motor-car accident, which resulted in the victim’s death from injuries, occurred in Devon Street late yesterday' afternoonJohn Clarke, aged 66, a married man, residing at Fitzroy, was knocked down by a motor-car about 5.10 p.m., sustaining a fractured skull and a broken leg, and ha died at the public hospital about seven o’clock. Mr. Edgar Hine, of Powderham Street, was driving a motor-car down Devon Street, in the direction of the Post Office. The oar was proceeding on the left-hand side of the street, and when opposite White’s, Ltd., Clarke stepped off the pavement with his back to the car, prewumably to see the time, as he was looking in the direction of the Post Office. He did not notice the approaching car, which had run into him and knocked him over before it could be pulled up. Clarke was attended by Dr. Milroy and later sent to hospital, where he died. He was a wharf-laborer, residing at 758 Devon Street, and he leaves a grown-up family An inquest will be held by the coroner (Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M.) at 8.15 to-night-