AFTER FUNERAL TRAGEDY

Evening Star, Issue 22366, 16 June 1936, Page 8

AFTER FUNERAL TRAGEDY

GAR COLLIDES WITH TIMBER LORRY CHASSIS RIPPED OFF ONE MAN KILLED, ANOTHER GRAVELY INJURED [Per United Press Association.] BLENHEIM, June 10. _ Tragedy overtook a party of six Wairau Valley farmers last evening Avhen returning home from attending a funeral in Blenheim. Within a couple of miles of Wairau Valley township, on a straight, Avide stretch of highAvay, the car, driven by George Gordon Davidson, collided Avith a laden timber lorry, with the result that Leonard Leslie Hart, a married man Avith one child, Avas killed instantaneously, while Davidson himself is not expected to live. 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. Tho four other occupants had a marvellous escape in the circumstances, suffering only from severe shock. The accident occurred just after dark. It can only be assumed that the driver of the ill-fated car miscalculated his margin to pass the lorry, with the result that his Avindscreen hit tho timber alongside the cab or the lorry, the driver of which Avas Mervyn Prentice,