PURELY ACCIDENTAL
CORONER’S VERDICT. ENQUIRY INTO GIRL’S DEATH. (Special to “Times-Age.”)' “To my mind it was purely accidental, and I have no doubt that the driver did his best and, what he thought was correct at the time of the accident,” stated the District Coroner, Mr E. G. Eton, when giving his verdict at an inquest held this morning at Carterton into the death of Veronica (Bonnie) Ireland, who was fatally injured when struck by a motor car driven by Douglas Walter Page at Clareville on the night of July 22. In returning a verdict of accidental death and exonerating the driver from blame, Mr Eton said that the evidence had been searching and had been brought forward in an explicit manner. He had no doubt that there were no signs or suggestion of liquor about the driver. The unfortunate occurrence was purely accidental, and he knew that at night the locality of the accident was a treacherous piece of road.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1938, Page 6
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161PURELY ACCIDENTAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1938, Page 6
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