Pa Vu-ting, a driver of the China General Omnibus Company, was charged with negligence causing death yesterday in the First Special District Court in connection with a fatal accident which happened shortly before 3 p.m. on Wednesday when a woman and six-year old son were crushed to death under the wheels of a double-decker which Pa was driving. To enable the police to make further investigations, the judge postponed the hearing to Friday next.
Rushed to Hospital According to the prosecution, the accident occurred on Vu Yuen Road near the Jessfield Park where the victims were walking. The driver was driving his vehicle from east to west when he struck the woman and her son. The car allegedly swerved to the right side of the street where the victims were walking. The woman, Yeh Fong-sze, was caught under the rear wheels while the boy, Yeh Kung-ling, was hit by the rear side of the bus. Both were rushed to the Red Cross Hospital but the woman died soon after admission while her son met the same fate a few hours later. An inquest was held over their bodies.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.