SYDNEY FATALITY.
DRIVER COMMITTED FOR TRIAS. SYDNEY, Sept. 24. The inquest into the victims of the motor-lorry smash at Newtown on August 12 was held to-day. The Coroner committed Percy Spittlehouse for trial on a charge of manslaughter.
On August 12 last a motor-lorry travelling at high speed in King Street, Newtown, got out of hand, mounted the footpath, and cut a boy almost to pieces, killed an old man, and injured a baby girl. Continuing its course, the lorry smashed the plate glass windows of soveral small sliops, until, at the end of its forty yards’ destructive career, it stopped against a news agent’s window. The driver and two men with him were seriously injured.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 254, 25 September 1929, Page 7
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116SYDNEY FATALITY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 254, 25 September 1929, Page 7
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