SHOCKING FATALITY
MAN AND WIFE KILLED CAR GOES OVER BANK (By Telegraph-Press Association) OPOTIKI, This Day. A shocking fatality occurred yesterday. F. Cracknell (CO), a Public Works employee, accompanied by his wife, was driving a car up Waioeka gorge and went over the side, and down a steep slope. The man was thrown out and killed instantly, and his wife received severe head injuries from which she> died in hospital last night. Her cries were heard by two men passing in a car, and they* got her up and took her to the hospital. A FARMER KILLED CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Edward Patrick Coaklev, a farmer of Spring Terrace, Cheviot, "was killed as the result of his motor car leaving the road on Saturday evening when he was returning home along Lemington road. He was a single man, aged 32 years.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 March 1930, Page 4
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