WOMAN KILLED IN PLUNGE OF CAR AFTER COLLISION
(P.A.) PALMERSTON N.. Mar. 28. A woman passenger in a car crashed several hundred feet to death shortly after 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon following a collision with another car on the Rewa hill road near Waituna. She was: Mrs. Esmee McLean, wife of Mr. Lachlan Thompson McLean, of Waituna, farmer and stock buyer in the Feilding district. ■ Mr. and Mrs. McLean were driving a large car up the hill when it collided with a descending vehicle, a light sports model car driven by Mr. A. Alve, Palmerston North.
The impact caused Mr. McLean’s car to shoot off to the left, crash through a wire fence and hurtle into the valley, the floor of which was several hundred feet below.
Mr McLean had a miraculous escape, emerging without serious injury, but Mrs. McLean was found pinned under the badly-smashed car.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22907, 29 March 1949, Page 6
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