FATAL ACCIDENT
TRUCK OVER BANK MAORI MAN’S DEATH WAfHUA HILL MISHAP (Special to the Herald.) WAIROA. this day.
Suffering serious injuries as the result of having "been pinned beneath a motor truck which lie was. driving from Wairoa to Mohaka on Saturday afternoon, and which went over the bank on Waihua Hill, Charlie To Kahika, aged 58, a Maori, of Mohaka. died in the Wairoa Hospital at midnight on Saturday. The truck, which was returning to Mohaka from Wairoa with five passengers, besides the driver, while negotiating Waihua Hill at 12.30 p.m., went over the bank, crashed through the fence on the roadside, turned over several times, and finally came to rest about a chain and a half below the road. When it came lo rest the driver was found to be pinned beneath the truck, but later was released by the passengers. When the police arrived from Wairoa the man was found to be seriously injured and was taken to the Wairo Hospital by ambulance. The other occupants of the truck escaped with slight injuries. An inquest was opened yesterday! before the coroner, Mr. V. E. Winter, J.P., and after evidence of identification had been given by the step-son of the deceased, was adjourned sine die.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20431, 16 December 1940, Page 5
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