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FATALITY IN MARLBOROUGH. (By Telegraph—Pless Association.) ' BLENHEIM, January 23. The conclusion that the accident occured through deceased walking on the left hand side of the road, with his back to the following traffic was reached by the Coroner, Mr E. J. Hill, at the inquest on James Reed, a labourer, aged 56. who was killed on the highway at Spring Creek in the early hours of the morning of January 1, as the result of being struck by a motor-car driven by Alick Henry Morgan, of Marshlands. The Coroner found that the speed of the car was not excessive, and that Morgan was dazzled by the glaring headlights of an oncoming car. “It may be said it was his duty to stop if he was so dazzled,” the Coroner observed, “but we know that it is never done on a wide road such as that on v/hich the accident occurred. The dark clothes of deceased, and the dark bitumen. added to the fact that the night was dark, made it impossible for Morgan to see the deceased, who evidently walked across towards the centre of the road in front of Morgan’s car.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1939, Page 7
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194MOTORIST EXONERATED Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1939, Page 7
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