PINNED BY CAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 9

PINNED BY CAR.

FARMER DROWNED. AFTER ACCEPTING "LIFT." DRIVER FOUND DAZED. MEMORY RETURNED TOO LATE. (By Telegraph. —Press Association.) CARTERTON, this day. John Thomas Hooper, aged 48, a farmer at Dalefield, lost his life last night as the result of a motor car accident. He had cycled to Carterton, 'and when there he was offered a ride home by Mr. James R. Mackay. When near a concrete bridge on the Dalefield Road the lights of an approaching car dazzled Mackay. He pulled hit> car to the side of the road, but went too far and plunged down an embankment about 15ft into a creek. Mackay was thrown out into the stream and received a blow on the head. He does not remember how he got out of the car. He was wandering round dazed when Hooper's son, who also had been in Carterton, came along and found him. Questioning brought to Mackay's mind that he had had Hooper as a passenger, and he asked where he was. Both searched, and they found Hooper pinned under the car, drowned. The police and a doctor removed Hooper's body to his home, which was not far distant. The other car, it is alleged, did not stop.