TRAPPED IN CAR.
MOTHER AND TWO SONS DROWNED. CRASH THROUGH FENCE INTO RIVER. (rr.ESS ASSOCIATION" IEI.EGP.iII.) PALMERSTOX X., August 16. Charles Herbert "Withers, a wellknown plumber, of .Palmerston North, with his wife and two boys, aged cloven and seven years respectively, was motoring home at 9.30 this eveni g. after a visit to see tho 1' leet, when he failed to observe a sharp bend ill the road at the approach to tho bridge a llangiotu township across tho Oioua R The car crashed through tho protecting fence and fell 20 feet into deep miraculously reached the bank, but the others were trapped in the curtained vehicle and undoubtedly drowned. , , , Police and searchers have located the car, but as yet arc unable to bring it to the bank.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18462, 17 August 1925, Page 8
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