MOTORCAR SMASH
MAN KILLED, ANOTHER INJURED By Telegraph. —Press Association. Wainiate, September 18. Estimated to have been travelling at about 50 miles an hour, a fiveseater motor-car, driven by L. Rodgers, of Invercargill, turned a corner alongside Quinn’s Farm, five miles from Wainiate, this afternoon too quickly to maintain its place on the road. The car made a wide sweep on to the grass at the side, then swung back into tlie centre of tlie road, from there, swinging back again to the left and capsizing over a culvert, making a complete somersault and landing on its wheels, facing the direction in which it came. Rodgers suffered injuries to his head, from which lie died as a doctor arrived. I*. O’Shauugiiessey lost half an ear and sustained a broken collar-bone, tlie other occupants—M. Wakelin, J. Markwell, and S. Beard—escaping with a severe shaking. It is understood that all the men were travelling for a Wellington liriii.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 300, 19 September 1928, Page 11
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156MOTORCAR SMASH Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 300, 19 September 1928, Page 11
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