FATAL CAPSIZE OF CAR
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, January 31. One man was killed and four were admitted to hospital as the result of a car capsizing three miles south of Whangarei on the Whangarei-Auckland highway tonight. The victims were:— Killed: John Albert Harris, aged 41, married, with four children, quarryman at Wilson's (N.Z.). Portland Cement Works.
Injured; Peter Cook, aged 62, farmer; Harold Gordon, aged 49, fitter; Lesley Harris, aged 29, railway employee; David Harry Burton, aged 68, cement works employee,
The condition of all the injured is reported to be satisfactory. The accident occurred when a sedan car, driven by Mr. Gordon, skidded in loose metal after rounding a bend. The car dived over a bank five feet high and through a wire fence into a paddock, where it came to rest on its side.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 26, 1 February 1943, Page 4
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135FATAL CAPSIZE OF CAR Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 26, 1 February 1943, Page 4
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