Drowning When Car Falls Into Washout
WESTPORT, This Day. When a light car in which two men were travelling from Westport to Tiroroa at midnight on Fridqy fell over the Omanu Creek bridge into a deep washout, one man was drowned and another almost miraculously escaped death. The man who was drowned was Mr. Joseph McAuliffe, aged 38, single. The accident occurred at the height of a storm. A deluge following exceptionally heavy rain caused the creek to rise rapidly, washing the timber from a mill against the bridge. The bridge was awash when the car, driven by Mr. William Hill, attempted to cross it. Two men on the opposite bank tried to signal the car with lights, but it just failed to pull up in time.
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Northern Advocate, 26 February 1940, Page 6
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