Motor-lorry Plunges Over Rank
TWO WOMEN KILLED AND CHILD INJURED Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Last Night. An accident resulting in two women bciug killed and a child being admittetl to hospital with internal injuries occurred tliis evening on Portobcllo road. The killed arc: Esther Matilda Good, a widow, aged 72; and Annie Julian, single, aged 46, both of Dunedin. The injured girl is Hilda Gray, aged seven, whose parents reside at Cromwell. The victims are all related. They were members of a party returning to Dunedin in a lorry, the two women occupying the front scat with the driver, John Garrick, of St. Kilda. The driver dimmed the lights of the vehicle to pass an approaching car and the lights failed when he tried to switch them on. The lorry plunged over a bank .12 feet high. The other occupants escaped injury.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 98, 29 April 1935, Page 7
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