DEATH DUE TO SHOCK
ELDERLY’ WOMAN WHO WAS STRUCK BY TRAM EVIDENCE AT INQUEST [ Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON. Feb. 17. A verdict of death due to heartfailure resulting from the shock from having sustained a broken leg in a collision with a tram was returned at the inquest into the death of Mrs. S. E. O. Snow, aged 75, who was knocked down by a tramcar outside Wellington Hospital on January 19 and died on February 13. Medical evidence was to the effect that Mrs. Snow’s heart was not good and that she died from heart failure. The driver of the tram said when he noticed Mrs. Snow he rang the bell and applied the emergency brake and after striking the deceased the tram pulled up in about six feet.
Evidence was also given that in a statement to the police after the accident Mrs. Snow said that she saw the tram coming but thought she had plenty of time in which to cross the road.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 41, 18 February 1939, Page 10
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166DEATH DUE TO SHOCK Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 41, 18 February 1939, Page 10
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