MOTOR FATALITY.
MAN KILLED AT PALMERSTON Palmerston, North, Nov. 4. A fatal motor accident occurred at the termination of Fitzroy street last night. A two-seater car driven | by William Forbes, _ special repre-1 sentative of the National Mutual: Insurance Co., and containing twoemployees of the Grand Hotel, (where Forbes was staying) Mary,; and Kitty Sullivan, overran the! road and somersaulted into the: bed of the Manawatu river. Forbes was killed instantly and the two i women were badly hurt. The latter : were taken to the hospital. Forbes; was a stranger to the locality and evidently did not know the road, terminated suddenly with a twenty, foot river bank. Tne car shot over! the bank and pinned the driver un- j derneath. Death must have been instantaneous.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 274, 4 November 1916, Page 6
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