The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-18
Coroner Finds No Negligence
 In Auto Fatality
Monzani After Probe Describes Peculiar Conditions
 Existing at Point of Accident Driver of Car Re-
 uured to Meet Unusual Situation at Time of Accident .--,- ' 1.- .-.o-.-s,. --s,., -.-

teriy in his automobile, which was | properly registered and stopped his car at the westerly corner of East 1 Main street and Welton street on
 account of the traffic signal placed at that intersection being set red
 against him. After the light changed from red to green he
 started forward toward the center
 of Waterbury. At the time that he
 had been held up by the signal
 there was at least one and pos-
 sibly two other cars in front of 1 him. It was just about dusk,
 and as his car started up upon 1 receiving the proper signal, the i cars In front moved rather slow
 ly and Hamilton started ahead. as
 nearly as l can learn. pulling tow
 ard the center of the highway so as to pass the cars immediately pre-
 ceding him on his right, as was proper. This intersection is a somewhat peculiar one, Welton
 street entering East Main per- pendicularly, and Hamilton avenue, on the opposite side of East Main entering at a very sharp angle. The entrance to Hamilton avenue Is a very great deal broader than LlldL OI w ClLVA 0t4CCtp oO tAAAS tAAO crossing for pedestrians going from the northerly to the southerly side of East Main street Is considerable
 distance west of Welton street. While the traffic signal was still set against the easterly and west erly bound traffic, Dennis Brennan started to cross from the northerly to the soutehrly side of East Main street at the westerly end of the in- tersection. He had gotten part way out into the street when the traffic light, changed and he then
 found himself directly in front of
 moving traffic coming toward him from the east. He hastened his pace to escape from the automo-
 bile which he saw approaching
 and stepped past that machine just
 as the automobile driven by Ham,
 ilton passed 1t on the first drivers
 left. Brennan was directly in front
 of Hamilton's car, which was mov-
 ing faster than the other machine,
 and Hamilton was unable to pull
 in front of the automobile and
 had to adhere to his straight
 course, particularly as there was
 an automobile going in the op-
 posite direction right near the cen-
 terd of the highway. Hamilton
 immediately applied his brakes but
 he had accumulated enough mo-
 mentum so that he was not able
 to stop his car until after he had
 struck Brennan and thrown him to
 the pavement. The operator going
 in the opposite direction, realizing
 the situation so far as Brennan was
 concerned, stopped his car. so that
 when Brennan was thrown to the
 pavement although his legs landed
 partly under the car approaching
 from the west, that car had stopped so that it did not run over
 him. Brennan was taken at once to St Mary's hosiptal where a
 careful examination some time af- ter his arrival disclosed the fact that he had a fractured skull which
 caused his death in about two. hours. find that said death was caused
 by fracture of the skull received, when struck by the automobile op-
 erated by Hamilton, but that said
 death was not caused by any crim-,
 inal act, omission or carelessness on the part of said Hamilton.