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Evidence by William Joffris Roberts, Coroners Court, Cloncurry;
Inquest:
Manner & cause: Death of Susan Mary McVean & Alexander Cameron
McVean
Coroner's
Court,
Cloncurry,
18th May, 1962.
WilliamJoffrisRoberts
WilliamJoffrisRoberts
Witness on Oath states:
My full name is William Joffris Roberts. I am a married man, 45
years of age. I reside at 21 Eva Street, Cloncurry. I am
now a railway accounts clerk for Hornibrooks. I remember Thursday
23rd November, 1961. At about 9.45pm on that day I was travelling
from Charters Towers to Townsville in my private vehicle. I was
accompanied by Ronald William Torr.
About 5 miles from Charters
Towers towards Townsville I observed two cars locked together, and as I
passed the one nearest to me, a ladies voice called out "Please God help us",
and by the light that was on the car I could see that there had been an
accident. I pulled around the front of the cars.
Mr Torr and myself got out of my vehicle and returned to the
scene. I made a superficial examination of the occupants of the
car. Just then another vehicle proceeding in the same direction,
that is from Charters Towers towards Townsville pulled up and I asked
him would he return to Charters Towers as fast as he could for police
and the ambulance, and this he did. One car was an International Panel
Van. It was coloured red. I found out the other car was a light
coloured green Zephyr Sedan. There were four people in the
Zephyr. In the front seat on the near side was an elderly woman
sitting with severe head injuries and on her right hand side was a
young lady. That was the driver of the vehicle, sitting jammed
behind the steering wheel, up against the dashboard.
In the rear seat of the vehicle were two men, an
elderly man who was
half laying on the floor, and half on the seat with his head to the
near side, with his feet to the offside, and there was a young chap
sitting in the corner on the off side directly behind the steering
wheel. I noticed that the elderly lady was severely injured
around the head. The injuries appeared extensive. First of
all I went around and saw the driver of the panel van. He was
sitting behind the steering wheel in a rather dazed condition. He
did not appear to be injured. I asked him if he was alright and he
said "yes". I than asked him if he had any blankets or mattresses
in his panel van. He told me whatever was there I could make use
of. Torr and myself then got blankets and a mattress out of the
van, went around to the Zephyr and I could see that the first to be
treated would be the chap I now know as Mr McVean. He was the
elderly person. I opened the door; the rear offside door, and
McVean jnr. as I now know him. I got him out and he appeared to
be alright, and we then spread a blanket on the roadway and Torr and myself then lifted McVean Snr
from the vehicle and laid him out on the roadway with his Son sitting
at his head for support.
The girl Alison
McVean
then
climbed
over
the
back of the front seat and got out of the car through
the
rear
off
door
and
sat with her father and brother.
From my observations at the time of the arrival at the accident, I
could see that there was no hope of Mrs McVean Snr so she was left to
last to be removed from the vehicle. I then went around to the
near side of the Zephyr, opened the door, and lifted Mrs McVean from
the front seat and laid her out on the mattress which I had prepared
before. I tested her for signs of life by looking into her eyes,
feeling her pulse and holding my glasses close to her mouth and
nose. I have been a member of the ambulance for 27 years. I have
done an examination in the Ambulance every year since 1934. I was
of the opinion that Mrs McVean was dead on my arrival. Mr McVean
Snr was alive. He was
speaking with his son and daughter.
After I had done that, the ambulance arrived and I showed him where
the patients were and which one required urgent
attention. Torr and myself assisted the bearer to put Mr
McVean Snr on the stretcher and into the ambulance car. The
son
and
daughter
got
into
the
front seat of the ambulance under their own
efforts. The daughter appeared to have a bit of a scratch on her
left elbow. I cannot remember the son having any injuries at all.
I did not notice any. They did not tell me anything.
The driver of the International I asked him, "What
happened? Were
you going fast?" and he said, "No, I was going along about 15 to 20 mph
when the lights came over the hill, dazzled me and I did not know where
I was driving." He was
then placed in the ambulance car and
taken along with the McVeans to Charters Towers Hospital. [EDIT: Organ
stated in hospital that he did not know that a person was killed in the
collision.] He was the only occupant of the panel
van.
During my examination and assisting these people I was quite close to
them. I did not detect or smell any liquor on any of them.
I did not detect or locate any bottles of liquor in the vehicles.
When I saw the Zephyr, it was very near to the centre of the road;
closer to the near side than the offside. The international would
be proceeding towards Charters Towers on the near side of the
road. It was on the right hand side of the road going towards
Charters Towers. The panel van was on its incorrect side, at an
angle of about 60degrees. The driver side back wheel was off the
bitumen and the wheel on the other side was on the bitumen, and both
the front wheels were on the bitumen.
The Zephyr was not at an angle. It was straight. It was off
the centre towards the left side on the way to Townsville. It was
towards its correct side. Both vehicles were locked together by
the two near side mudguards. They were really jammed
together. The mudguard and the front wheel and the front
tortion bar and the door was jammed back onto the front seat where the
elderly lady was sitting on the Zephyr. The front of the vehicle
would be nearly a write off. It was a new car about two or three
years old. I do not remember the number of it.
The International's mudguard on the near side was badly bent into
towards the engine. The doors were not jammed. The radiator was pushed
back onto the engine on an angle. I did not take any notice of
the tyres.
I did not observe any skid marks in the immediate
vicinity. I did not
look for them. It was a dark night. We had torches at the
time. I turned my own car around and put my lights on. When I
arrived the lights on the Zephyr. It had one light on the driver's side
and it was still on. I had a look on the dashboard. I saw
that the little red indicator light was on, indicating that the lights
were on high beam. The near side light of the Zephyr was smashed.
The interior lights or the Zephyr were on. I did not observe that
the doors of the vehicle were slightly open on my arrival. There were
no lights on the International. I found out later that the
battery wire had been broken. The ignition was switched on and
the light switch was pulled out, indicating that the lights had been
on. I formed the opinion that the impact had forced the battery
out of position. The headlight on the side where the impact
occurred was broken.
About 500 yards on the Charters Towers side of the accident, you cross
a creek known as Chinaman Creek and coming up out of this creek there
is a slight grade. It rises about 25 feet in a hundred
yards or thereabouts. It is a road out of a river. Once you
got to the crest of the rise, from there to the point of the impact
would be about 3 or 4 hundred yards. I would say that would be a
reasonable margin. It would not be much less than three hundred
yards. It was a straight road with no obstructions. At that place
the road is straight for about 2 miles before it takes a slight
bend. Any vehicle travelling in either direction would have a
clear view. The road surface was good. It was bitumen with
gravel sides,with plenty of room. It is a good wide road. No cars
passed me going in the same direction as me and there were no cars at
the time, in the vicinity. Just after we arrived at the time of
the accident there would have been 70 to 80 cars pass on the way to
Townsville, returning from Charters Towers. All these cars were
diverted around the accident by Mr Torr.
I have driven over this road many times and I have a
good knowledge of
the road day and night. I would not give any opinion as to
the cause of this accident. The people in the Zephyr did not make
any mention of how the accident occurred. There was no mention of
speeding. I did not hear the McVean family talking amongst
themselves. The boy and
the girl were too stupified to know that they were even there, I think.
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