MOTOR TRAGEDY

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4873, 21 July 1936, Page 4

MOTOR TRAGEDY

TWO MEN KILLED. ANOTHER COUPLE INJURED. Tragedy overtook a party of labourers bound from Te Kawa to Auckland shortly before 11 o'clock on Saturday evening, when, as the result of their car capsizing, two were killed and two others injured. The pai-ty was travelling in torrential rain along the Great South Road when, about a mile north of Ohinewai, a tyre blew out and the car oveturned. The victims were:—

Killed.—George Charles Blank, aged 48, road contractor, of Wairoa Road, Papatoetoe, married, with five children; Edgar Neville Moxsom, aged 32, labourer, married, of 45 Anglesea Street, Ponsonby. Injured.—Keith Robert Bremner, a widower, aged 32, lorry driver, of Drury; severe concussion, bruises, abrasions and shock; condition fairly serious; Hugh Prince, aged 50, quarry worker, widower, of Te Kawa; injui’ies to an arm and severe shock; condition not serious.

The party was being driven to Auckland by Mr. Bremner in a threeseater light roadster with the intention of visiting Mr. Moxsom’s relatives. All occupied the one seat, Mr. Prince sitting on Mr. Moxsom’s knee. The car had almost reached the end of a stretch of straight road north of the Ohinewai township when a tyre burst. The vehicle lurched out of control and skidded before turning round, travelling 150 feet and capsizing into a depression 4ft. deep alongside the road.