WOMAN KILLED
THREE INJURED
MOTOR CRASH AT AUCKLAND
(By Telegraph—Press -Association.)
AUCKLAND, Augvst 21.
One woman was ; killed and three women were injured when a mQ"or-car in which they wqre travelling, struck a telegraph pole on the . Great South Road on, Saturday afternoon.
The .victims - were:—Killed: Mrs. Elizabeth Muir, aged' 68. Papatoetoe. Injured: Mrs. Barbara Kirkbride, aged 52, Mangere, fractured ankle and shoes; condition not serious. Miss Mabel Evelyn Wills, aged 56, Papatoetoe, concussion; condition not serious. Misg Ada K. Watson, Papatoetoe, abrasions.
The women were occupants of a large car which was travelling from the city parallel with an outward-bound tramcar. The accident occurred . when a taxi proceeding in the same direction was passing between the car and the tram. Swinging to the left, the car mounted the footpath and struck a telegraph pole with considerable force, the engine being pushed back and the windscreen shattered.
Mrs. Muir, who was driving, was crushed against the wheel, and her neck was broken. Mrs. Kirkbride was sitting next to her in the front seat, arid Miss Wills and Miss Watson were in the back seat. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 45, 22 August 1938, Page 15
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