Peter Christopher Smith

Peter Christopher Smith died in a motorcycle accident on 5 October 1957 at Midsomer Norton. However, it was not known whether he had been driving the motorcycle or his friend who was also injured in the crash but who was unable to remember anything and an open verdict was returned.

The Coroner noted that if it had been Peter Smith that had been in control of the bike when he lost control then his death would have been considered accidental, but said that if it were his friend, who remembered nothing, then the matter became complicated as if it were agreed that he had been driving the motorcycle in a gross careless manor that the jury would be right to send him to trial on a charge of manslaughter.