MOTOR FATALITIES.
CAR CRASHES OVER BANK.
ACCIDENT IN MABLBOROV6H. ONE KILLED AND THREE INJURED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, this day. A motor fatality occurred at Wheeler's Hill between Seddon and Ward on Saturday evening. A car, which was being driven by Mr. William Feetham, on the way to Wharanui from Blenheim, failed to negotiate a turn at the top of a hill and crashed over a bank. The front wheels collapsed. Mr. Samuel Hill, employed on _ the Wharanui railway works,' was killed, receiving a fractured skull. Mr. Robert Bragger, of Kilbirnie, received injuries to the chest and back. Mr. Lawrence Prebble received head injuries. Mr. William Feetham, of Wharanui, received a broken collarbone and a bruised shoulder. The injured men are in hospital. The late Mr. Hill's home was in Petone, where his widow lives.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 283, 30 November 1931, Page 5
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