SKULL PENETRATED BY CAR DOOR HANDLE
Cyclist Fatally Injured ’ln
Collision
By Telegraph—Press Association.
HAWERA. December 5.
As Ihe result of severe head injuries received late last night when tiie motorcycle he was riding collided with a car at Normauby, William Hunt, a Maori, died in the Httwera Hospital this morning. The accident occurred close to the township, the ear involved being driven by Wilfred Brett, accountant of the Bank of New Zealand, Kaponga. It was raining heavily at the time find visibility is stated to have been bad.
An X-ray examination revealed that a handle of one of the car’s doors was completely buried in Hunt’s skull, entering the top of the head and travelling toward the left ear, causing brain laceration.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 62, 6 December 1938, Page 12
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