MOTORING TRAGEDY
THREE PEOPLE KILLED ;§iMijLAR Number injured. CAR FALLS SIXTY FEET. r* ■ (Special to tf Northern Advocate.”) COROMANDEL, This Day. Tinge people were killed in a motor accident on Manaia Hill near Coromandel, yesterday afternoon when a car, driven by William Wilson and containing six people capsized over a 60-feet bank. KILLED. Wilson Snr., father of the driver. Mrs Wilson, wife of W. Wilson. Jessie Wilson, aged two years, daughter, of W. Wilson. INJURED. W. Wilson, injuries to shoulder and shock. B. S. Carroll, fractures of several ribs and bruises. Margaret Wilson, aged six years, daughter of W. Wilson, slight injuries.
The party was returning to Thames in Mr Wilson’s car from a visit to Mr Frank Shepherd, mine manager of the Hauraki Gold Mining Company, Coromandel. Wilson Snr,, and Mrs W. Wilson were killed almost instantaneously, while Jessie Wilson died an hour later at the Coromandel Hospital, a few minutes after admission.
The accident occurred at about four o'clock when the car was at the top of the Manaia Hill, where the road is extremely rough and dangerous, with banks and steep drops on either side. Wilson thought he heard another car approaching and pulled into the bank away from the edge and the wheels became lodged in the watertable. It was necessary to put on speed to get the ear out. The car left the watertable with a jump and suddenly went over the side of the road, rolling a considerable distance down into a stock accommodation paddock below' the road.
The car, a new limousine, which Mr Wilson had recently purchased, was damaged . beyond repair. .
Wilson is foreman at the Thames •works of Messrs A. and G. Price Limited, /where he has been employed for a long period. His father was a resident of Devonport and was spending a holiday with his son. Mrs Wilson was a daughter of Mr George Clark, a well-known Thames resident. 1
Cairroll is inspecting locomotive engineer to the Railways Dej>artment in connection with the construction of railway engines for the Department at Thames by Messrs Price Ltd. His ■wife resides in Auckland. A motor truck was sent out from Thames’- to bring back the bodies of those killed. ,
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Northern Advocate, 26 November 1928, Page 5
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