ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 293, 5 April 1921, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

CALLS FALL OVER CLIP?; tPer Press Association.! CHRIS'!CHURCH, April 4. The occupants of the car which went over the cliff 100 feet high on the Akaroa road on Saturday night were Forbes Blackmore, aged 26, traveller for a firm of motor car proprietors, who was driving the car; Bertram Edwards, son of the late M. Edwards, a well-known trotting trainer; Norman Bing, who was on holiday from Wellington, where ho was employed in Banks’ Commercial College; Duncan Brown, a Cliristchureh architect; George Storey, comedian of tho Walter George Sunshine Players Coy., which is now appearing at the Opera House; and Mrs Storey, wife of George Storey, _ who is known on the stage -us Dnlcio Milner. Tim err left tho road at a fairly safe point, where (hero is no bond or obstruction, and it is presumed that it ran back as the driver pulling np to look atIris lights. The car crashed through a wire fence close to the road, and rolled over sideways until it reached the bottom. It was so badly- smashed that it will probably have lo he dismantled befo r o it can be hauled back to the road. Viewing the wreckage it is now soon that the party were fortunate to escape more serious injuries. All the occupants wore stunned n-'d remained unconscious for some time, Storey had a leg fractured, and suffered oiV" severe injuries, the full extent, of which is yet unknown. Edwards had a collarbone, broken, and Blackmore was badly cut. on the thigh. The three others v'oro considerably bruised' and shaken.