Chinese Lady Driver Ordered to Pay Compensation Mr. Blackburn (British Assessor) and Magistrate Kwan held an inquest on Monday on the body of a Chinese woman who was knocked down and fatally injured by a motor car at the corner of Yangchow and Whashing Roads last Saturday afternoon.
P.. 8. Eva, of the Shanghai Municipal Police, gave evidence that he was sitting on the front seat of the car (No. 477) with the driver (a young' Chinese woman named Nich Lung-teh), When they turned into Whashing Road there were a number of people standing ~in the road and as the horn was sounded these people split into two parties. The deceased, who was the last of one party, started to cross the road, then hesitated and turned back. Thus she was knocked down by the car.
The car was going very slowly and the woman was only a few feet from it when she doubled
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