Tom Davies

Tom Davies was knocked down by an unknown motorist on Promenade, Llandudno on 4 May 1921.

Tom Davies had been a bath attendant at Craigside Hydro, Llandudno.

He was knocked down on the main road leading from Craigydon to Craigside, about 220 yards from the corner of Nant-y-Gamar Road going towards Craigside.

A police constable that went to the scene the following day said that he saw marks of a wheel that had mounted the pavement that extended for 70 feet, noting that it was quite plain to see where the car had gone on and off the pavement. He said that the mark of the wheel at its widest point was five feet from the edge of the road.

He said that at a point 49ft 6in from where Tom Davies's body was found that he discovered a pool of blood and a mark as if something had been dragged to a point 27 feet away where there was another pool of blood, and that there was another pool in the road. He said that the mark was inside the wheel mark, as if something had been dragged along.

He said the road was straight and was 29ft wide and the pavement was 11ft wide and divided from the road by a gutter 12in wide and 2¼in deep.

The inquest heard that Tom Davies had died from a bad fracture of the skull and that there was no doubt as to what had caused it.

After hearing the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against a person or persons unknown.