TRAGIC MOTOR MISHAP
FATALITY ON THE WAIROA ROAD ADDITIONAL DETAILS. Per Press Association. NAPIER, Jan. 3. The fatal motor accident in which Messrs Wilfred Sehvyn Osborne and Bernard Augustus Osborne, of Palmerston North, were killed occurred about 20 miles from Napier, on the main road to Wairoa, earlv last evening. As they were travelling/ uphill toward Napier the Osborne brothers encountered a service car. Owing to the dangerous nature of the hill, the Devil’s Elbow, and the precipitous formation on the left they were hugging the bank and consequently were travelling on the wrong 6ide of the road. As the service car came into view they pulled to the left, the swerve taking them on to the brink of a'terrifie drop. The driver was unable to straighten up again before the outside wheels of his car were over the edge of the bank and, carried by its own weight, the vehicle slid slowly over, hurtling to the bottom of the Gorge once all four of its wheels had left the road. Both men died from the terrible injuries they received. Their bodies were brought to Napier. An inquest was opened this morning, being adjourned after evidence of identification had been given by a cousin of the Osborne family, Mr Honore.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 28, 3 January 1931, Page 8
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