MOTOR FATALITY
THREE KILLED IN TRUCK CAPSIZE. [By Electric Cable—Copyright] i.Aust and N.Z. Cable Association.] BRISBANE, May 3. Three persons were killed and sixteen injured through the capsize of a motor-truck at Redcliffe. In addition to tho three killed in the Redcliffe accident and five were seriously injured, and eleven others received minor injuries. The party was proceeding from Ipswich to Redcliffe for a picnic. They were some three miles from their destination when the stub axles of the front wheels broke and all the occupants of the truck were thrown on the roadway. Two wer e killed outright. The dead are Mrs. Rebecca Martin, Henry Otto Hollsworth and his sou Cyril. The injured are suffering mostly from head, back and internal injuries. One little girl had her leg severed.
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Manawatu Times, 4 May 1926, Page 7
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130MOTOR FATALITY Manawatu Times, 4 May 1926, Page 7
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