CAR BODY RIPPED OFF
COLLISION WITH LORRY
FATAL SMASH IN DARK (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. Tragedy overtook a party of six Wairau Valley farmers last evening when they were returning home from attending a funeral in Blenheim. Within a couple of miles of the Wairau Valley township on a straight, wide stretch of highway their car, which was driven by George Gordon Davidson, collided with a laden timber lorry, with the result that Leonard Leslie Hart, a married man with one child, was killed instantly and Davidson himself is not expected to live.
Both received fearful head injuries when the body of the car, a big sedan, was practically ripped off the chassis. Evidently the bodywork struck the men on the heads, with shocking consequences.
.The four other occupants had a marvellous escape in the. circumstances, suffering only severe shock.
The accident occurred just after dark. It can only be assumed that the driver of the car miscalculated the margin necessary to pass the lorry, with the result that the windscreen hit the timber alongside the cab of the lorry driver, Mervyn Prentice.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 10
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