MOTOR FATALITIES
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, 4th July.
There were two fatal motor accidents during the week-end in North Taranaki. At Now Plymouth, Severien Olaf Wilholm Olsen, Harbour Board launchman, riding a motor-cycle, crashed into a tramcar. His right leg was broken and he sustained concussion, and died four hours later in the hospital without regaining consciousness. The deceased, who was 29 years of age, was a Dane, and had no relatives in NewZealand. At Oaonui, Henry Coombes, farm labourer, of Rahotu, aged 19 years, sustained a broken neck as tho result of a collision of his motor-cycle with a , bridge at a sharp be_4 in the road.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 4, 5 July 1926, Page 3
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