MAN’S NECK BROKEN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 December 1926, Page 11

MAN’S NECK BROKEN.

FATALITY NEAR TAIHAPE. CAR PLUNGES OVER BANK. Following a fatal motor-car accident jiear Taihape on Saturday night, J. W. Mahoney will appear at the Magistrate’s Court. Taihape. ou Monday to ans wer a charge of manslaughter (states the Taihape oori-espondent of the W anga nui Chronicle). Mahoney, who lives on State Farm Road, was driving a five-seater with him being George Robert Sutherland. C. J- Smith .and a Maori named Mackay. Just after crossing the railway bridge from Kaka Road towards Taihape, about 11.55 p.m., the car ran off the road and went over a hank seven feet high, turning a isomersault and landing upside down, all four occupants being pinned underneath. They were extricated by some pass-ers-by: Sutherland was dead, his neck being broken, and Mackay was unconscious. The others were not hurt. M&ckay was taken to Taihape Hospital, and regained consciousness to-night. He is expected to recover. Police /Sergeant C ’ Neill and® Constable King arrested Mahoney, the driver of the car( after the accident., and he was charged with manslaughter before a Justice of the Peace, who remanded him to appear at the Court on Monday. Sutherland had been working as a labourer in the district. It is thought that his relatives live in Dunedin, where he was formerly a prominent Rugby footballer. He at one time lived in Hawera.