SHOCKING FATALITY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 26, 30 July 1938, Page 14

SHOCKING FATALITY

MAN DECAPITATED

LORRY'S SKID IN SNOW

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, July 29,

Struck- by a motor-lorry which skidded in snow near th^e National Park station this afternoon, a middleaged man standing in. front of a stationary vehicle was killed instantly. He was Harold Le-Prou, aged 38, married, a contractor, of National Park. The accident occurred on the Tokaanu Road between the station and the Egmont Box Company's mill. Mr. Le-Prou was driving from the mill to the station when he was involved in a collision' with a motor-car driven by Mr. Brian Wilson, of the Native Lands Department, Hokianga, who was on his way to the mill. An occupant of the car, Mr. R. R. G. Searle, Kohukohu, received head injuries arid was removed to' the' Chateau Tongariro. His condition is riot serious.

Mr. Le-Prou, who was not injured in the collision, stepped put of his lorry and was standing in front of the radiator when, another truck, driven by his brother, Mr. Basil Le-Prou, rounded the bend in the road. Seeing the'two vehicles on the road, Mr. Basil Le-Prou applied his brakes, with the result that his lorry skidded. The back portion struck' his brother, who was pinned against the front of his own lorry and decapitated.