AUCKLAND INQUEST.
OPEN VERDICT RETURNED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 28. An open verdict was returned by the Coroner, Mr F. K. Hunt, at the inquest relating to the death in Victoria Rond. Belmont, on May 29, of Mrs Ena Elizabeth Hunt, aged 26, who was knocked down ill a collision with a "motor-car ns she was crossing the road at about 7.50 p.m. John Albert Gibson, aged 20, the driver of the cnr. said the car was an old model which lie had purchased two weeks previously for £2. The headlights were in order and the car had a certificate of fitness. With three friends, he was driving from Devonport to attend at party at Tnkapuna. The car was travelling at a speed of 20 miles an hour on the down grade when suddenly he saw two women on the road. . He brought the car to a stop, but not before he had struck both women practically at the moment be sftw them. Later it was found that Mrs Hunt was fatally injured and her companion injured slightly. To tllo Coroner: His party were not laughing and talking at the moment of the accident. He thought the women must have stepped from the footpath directly in front of the car. He had just emerged from the Sodium lighting area and had since been told by a bus driver that the effect on a driver was to cause a black Spot at times. John J. Gamble, who w-as on the front seat of the car, corroborated this evidence. Two young women who witnessed the accident from the opposite side of the road said that Mrs Hunt and her companion 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 deal of traffic at the time.
The police evidence r.ns that tiie car’s footbrnke after the accident appeared defective. The Coroner found that Mrs Hunt died as the respit of injuries -received by being knocked down by a motor-ear driven by John Albert Gibson. He Said that in view of possible further developments lie would not make any comment.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 29 July 1937, Page 2
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369AUCKLAND INQUEST. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 29 July 1937, Page 2
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