TWO MEN KILLED.
* MOTORCAR OVERTURNS. DEFECT IN STEERING GEAR. [TEC PBESS Special Sorrtco.j DUNEBTN, November 20. A serious motor accident in which two men were killed occurred last night, about 16 miles from Outram. A party of men, consisting of Michael Black, a surfaceman in the employ of the Taieri County Council, James Harrison and Murdoch Graham, sheepfnrmers, of Hindon, was returning homo from the Outram Show. Heavy rain during the day had made the roads dangerously slippery, and when negotiating a steep descent the car suddenly got out of control and rushed over a bank, capsizing. Harrison was thrown clear, but Black and Graham were pinned beneath the car. Harrison was unable to lift the car and had to go a mile for aid. When the bodies were extricated both men' were dead. Black was 36 years old, a married man with a young family, and Graham was an elderly man with a grown-up family. The car was owned and driven by Black. The cause of the mishap is stated to be a sudden breaking of a vital part of the steering gear.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18855, 22 November 1926, Page 8
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