CAR RUNS OFF ROAD
AN OCCUPANT KILLED TWO MEN INJURED IN CRASH AT MIDNIGHT DRIVER'S LUCKY ESCAPE [By Telegraph-Ureas Association] WELLINGTON, This Day, When a car ran off the road shortly before midnight between Paekakariki and Paraparaumu, John Dwyer, tramway official of 111 Creswick Terrace, Wellington, was killed. Alexander Adcock, of 246 Sutherland road, tramway motorman, sustained shock, a fractured left arm and injury to the back: and Ernest John Reilly, of Perth, Western Australia, who is living at 111 Creswick Terrace, shock, facial injuries and bruises to the body. The car was returning from a race meeting at Woodville :.nd left the road about a mile north of McKay’s crossing. It struck a telegraph post and finished up in the ditch. The driver, Morris Raymond ' Adcock, of Sutherland road, had a miraculous escape from injury. The two injured men were taken to a doctor's residence by a passing motorist and from there to Wellington Hospital by the Free Ambulance. Their condition is not serious.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 1 May 1937, Page 10
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165CAR RUNS OFF ROAD Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 1 May 1937, Page 10
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