MOTOR FATALITY
THREE KILLED IN TRUCK
CAPSIZE.
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) BRISBANE, 2nd May.
Three persons were killed and sixteen injured through the capsize of a motor-truck at Redcliffe.
DETAILS OF ACCIDENT,
(Received 3rd May, noon.)
BRISBANE, This Day
In addition to the three killed in the Redcliffie accident and five seriously injured, eleven others received minor injuries. The party was proceeding from Ipswich to Bedcliffe for a picnic. They were some three miles from their destination when the stub axles of the front wheels broke and all the occupants of the truck were thrown on the roadway. Two were killed outright. The dead are Mrs. Rebecca Martin, Henry Otto Hollsworth and his son Cyril. The injured are suffering mostly from head, back and internal injuries. One little girl had her leg severed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 104, 3 May 1926, Page 9
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