YOUNG WOMAN KILLED

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20258, 29 July 1937, Page 7

YOUNG WOMAN KILLED

STRUCK BY AN OLD CAR. BLACK SPOT RESPONSIBLE? tßy T'elegraoli.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Wednesday. An open verdict was returned by the coroner, .Mr F. K. Hunt, at the inquest reiat.ng to the death in Victoria i Hoad, BeJmonl, on -May 29 of Mrs Ena ! Elizabeth Hunt (26), who was knocked ! down in a collis.on with a motor-car as she was crossing tlie road about 7.5 U p.m. John Albert Gibson (20). driver of the car, said the car was an old model wh cli he purchased two weeks previously for 1:2. The headlights were in ; order and the car had a certificate of j illness. With three friends he was 1 driving from Devonport to attend a i party at Takapuna. The car was travelling 20 miles an hour on the I downgrade when suddenly he saw two | women on the road. He brought the | car to a stop but not before he had j struck both women pract catty at the ; nnvment lie saw them. Later he found j m.-s Hunt was fatally injured and her | companion injured sightly. • To the coroner he said his party i was not laughing and talking at the I moment, of the accident. He thought I tiie women must have stepped from j the footpath directly in front of the 1 car. He had just emerged from the j sodium lighting area and had since ! been told by a bus driver that the j effect on the driver was to cause a ! black spot at times. / John J. Gamble, who was on the I front sent of the car. corroborated this j evidence. Two young women who witnessed the accident from the opposite side of the road said Mrs Hunt and her cornpan'on had been laughing and talking as they walked along the footpath and were arm-in-arm as they stepped on to the road as the car was approaching. There was a good deal of traffic at the time. The police, gave evidence that the car’s footbrake after the accident appeared defective. The coroner found that Mrs Hunt died as a result of injuries received by being knocked down by a motorcar driven by John Albert Gibson and said that in view of possible further developments he would not make any comment.