PINNED UNDER CAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 116, 12 November 1938, Page 22

PINNED UNDER CAR

YOUNG MAN'S DEATH

(By Telegraph—Press Association-) DUNEDIN, November 11. A fatal accident occurred at Pigroot Bridge, about 29 miles from Palmerston, at about 8.45 this morning, Alan Trevor Spinks, aged 21, of Waterloo Street, Dunedin, losing his life when the car which he was driving got out of control on the downhill grade. Spinks was thrown out of the car, but was pinned down by it in the Shag River. His two companions, Charles Frederick Algie and Mervin James McKenzie, both of Dunedin, were uninjured. The car was coming to Dunedin from the public works camp in Makarora, and was running down the grade when it apparently got out of control when the bend, and plunged over the bank about 25 feet into the river. Mr. Spinks was apparently thrown out of the car, but when it somersaulted down the in-« cline he was pinned under it in the river. The two passengers were unable;

!to release him, and by the time further aid could be obtained from a. passing car it was too late. The police in Palmerston were in-« formed and with additional assistance, the body was recovered and conveyed to Palmerston. It was brought to Dunedin tonight and the inquest will be. opened at 9 a.m. tomorrow.