CAR ON WRONG ROAD
STAFF-SERGEAXT KIIXED (0.C.) WANGANUI, this day. A member of the staff at the Waiouru military camp. Staff-Sergeant George Wyeth, aged 32. married, was killed on Saturday night when a car in which he was travelling went over a bank on the Taihape-Napier road.
In company with three other soldiers, Staff-Sergeant Wyeth had been visiting Taihapc and on the return journey they took the Napier road by mistake. Mrs. Wyeth resides at Featherston.
The party ieft Taihape at 11 p.m. but took the wrong turning on to the Taihapc-Napier road. Soon after realising this, they were passed hv a car travelling in the same direction. On making wav for the overtaking vehicle the car skidded off the road, turning over and coming to rest down a 15-fect bank against the fence, pinning Staff-Sergeant Wyeth against it.
Visibility was bed at the time of the accident and heaw rain was falling. The car. an old model, .suffered little damage.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 212, 8 September 1941, Page 6
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