DEATH OF A CHILD.
STRUOK BY A CAR. NEGLIGENT DRIVING ALLEGED. (By Tclegrapiu-—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., Thursday. At an Inquest Into the death of Betty Francis Alhrey, aged seven, who died in the hospital on September 23, six days after a motor accident at Oroua Downs, Charles John Dunbar Skinner, of Fielding, gave evidence that on September 15 he passed a grader working on the Sandon-Himi-tangi Road at not more than 20 miles an hour, when the girl darted out right in front of the car. He swerved to the right to miss her, but did not apply the brakes until too late, and the bumper caught her. William Gilbert Hope, the grader driver, said Skinner’s car, when level with the grader, wan travelling at from 30 to 35 miles an hour. The girl ran across thirty yards in front, and the car swerved to the right, struck her, and pulled up 72 yards ' further on. Had the brakes been applied the accident would not have occurred, said witness. The coroner returned a verdict that deceased died following a fractured skull sustained through being knocked down by a car negligently driven by Skinner.
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18140, 3 October 1930, Page 9
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