FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT
CYCLE AND TRUCK COLLIDE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, March 3. As the result of a serious collision about one o’clock on Saturday, at the corner of Thames Street and North Road, two young men, Stewart Henderson, aged 17, and his brother, Norris, aged about 22, residing at Waikiwi, were admitted to the Southland Hospital, where Stewart succumbed to his injuries. Details of the occurrence are meagre, but it appears that the brothers Were riding into town on a motor-cycle, oue on the pillion. At the intersection of Thames Street and North Road they apparently swerved to avoid an approaching car, ana in so doing crashed headlong into a motortruck that was proceeding along North Medical attention was at once' called for, and,when Dr. Collins arrived he assisted in removing the younger of the boys from underneath the truck. Subsequently the injured youths were removed in the ambulance to the hospital in an unconscious condition. The elder brother has a fracture of the skull, cuts and abrasions, and is also suffering from shock.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 135, 4 March 1929, Page 12
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