FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 9 May 1921, Page 7

FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT

CAR FALLS SEVERAL HTJNDREI FEET.

(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

CHRISTCHTJRCH, May 9. A fatal motor accident occurred yesterday near Church Bay, on the ogposite side of the harbour to Lyttelton'. -Robert Hunter, farmer at Amberley, had taken a party over the hills on Saturday to spend the week-end with his brother. Yesterday morning the party, with the addition of John Hunter and Oliver Hunter (brothers of Robert Hunter), farmers on the Peninsula, made a trip to Diamond Harbour, and on the return journey, when descending Church Bay Hill, the front wheels of the car skidded and. swerving towards the edge of the road, smashed into a wire fence. For a brief period the car hung in the wires, enabling John and Oliver Hunter and their daughters to jump clear and escape with minor injuries. Robert Hunter, who was driving, and Mrs Oakley, his married sister, were unable to get clear. The car plunged over the edge of the road down a declivity almost to the sea,- a distance" of several hundred feet, and was smashed to pieces. Mrs Oakley was found dead, and Hunter was badly injured, three ribs being broken. a