A BARMAN’S DEATH
KNOCKED OVER BY CAR CONDITION OF WINDSCREEN WAS VISIBILITY IMPAIRED? (By Telegraph.—Press Associations WELLINGTON, Wednesday In returning a verdict that Vivian Claude Parker, aged 37, a barman, died at Island Bay on August 22 from severe head injuries sustained by being knocked down by a car driven by Thomas Francis Hooper, the coroner, Mr E. Gilbertson, said he was satisfied the windscreen was in a dimmed state, partly through its condition and partly through weather which was stated to be foggy. Visibility was not good. Hooper said the car, a 7 h.p. model, was made in 1931-32. The windscreen was of shatterproof glass and the bottom right-hand corner was cracked where it had been struck by a stone. He said the screen was of a yellow tinge throughout. It was not splodgy. As he admitted such screens sometimes were. It was not misty enough at the time to have the wiper working. A police constable said the screen was dirty and impaired vision exI cept where the wiper had been | working. The visibility that evening was not good.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20921, 28 September 1939, Page 3
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181A BARMAN’S DEATH Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20921, 28 September 1939, Page 3
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