PLUNGE INTO RIVER.
THREE MOTOSISIS BEO^SJ^I (PE£S3 ASSOCUtSW PALMERSTOH 2», Sjjj|ili The enquiry was the circumstances fatality at Kangiota mi, the night of Augoat IStfe Mrs C. H. Withers aai tin their lives through Sib We they wore travelling a picket fence and steep bank into tiut Ctocmt The bodies of tho two Peri, aged five, and aged twolve, were found body of Mrs Withers las Bflt Charles Herbert Wit&m jwl denco that on the night at ttaCHHflj he was returning frosa North by car, aceoTi>paßi<!s l wife and children. Eangiotu bridge, travelling teen miles an hour, Iris picked up the railway half a chain from tho continued on in the first-named structure tffli bridge. Ho suddenly fowj'Sl picket fence in front of immediately applied tins was too near tho fentt car, and tho fenea failed fowpMlH vehicle, which plunged. cr#r JwjfeJgaH river. His wife and boy» back seat. He made locate them, without next thing he remembcmil «Hf jß|iß ing-vhimself and being The Coroner returned » the two boys were ed, apparently due to judgment on the part of mistaking the approach at »j® bridge for that of th« Further, that at the time element of danger at thfl was satisfactory to not® dence that steps had h«®B ■ ¥|gggg!SH prevent a recurrence of
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18603, 30 January 1926, Page 14
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