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Liverpool Echo Friday January 6th 1961
Driver Passed Scene Of Crash Without Knowing
A motorist on his way to the Birkenhead Dock Branch of the Mersey Tunnel to renew his contract saw a crowd at the junction of Watson Street and Cleveland Street, Birkenhead, standing around a woman who had been in collision with a lorry.
Only later did he learn that the woman was his sister-in-law and that she had died from her injuries.
Patrick Ryan, a student nurse and husband of the licensee of the Crown Vaults Hotel, 34 Watson Street, Birkenhead, told this to Mr. Joseph Roberts, Birkenhead Coroner, when he gave evidence of identification at an inquest yesterday on Mrs Elizabeth Gray, aged 57, a widow, of the same address, who was killed on Tuesday night.
The inquest was adjourned until January 10.
Not To Blame For Fatal Accident
After hearing evidence that a woman ran from the pavement from behind a stationary bus into the path of a lorry laden with sand and gravel the jury, at a resumed inquest at Birkenhead yesterday expressed the view that the lorry driver was in no way to blame for the fatality.
They returned a verdict of accidental death on Mrs. Elizabeth Gray, 57 year old widow and sister of the woman licensee of the Crown Vaults Hotel, Watson Street, Birkenhead, where she lived and was employed as a part-time assistant.
Mrs. Gray was killed - death was due to a fractured skull - when she was knocked down by a lorry at the junction of Cleveland Street and Watson Street shortly after 6 p.m. on January 3rd.
The Lorry Driver, ............, of ............ was not called, but in a statement said he braked hard but was unable to avoid hitting the woman.
Reports on the Accidental Death of Elizabeth Gray, née Mordaunt
VICTIM A RELATIVE
Liverpool Echo Wednesday January 11th 1961
DRIVER CLEARED