FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.
CAR RUNS OVER A BANK.
MAN INJURED AND WIFE
KILLED.
[BY TELEGRAPH TRESS ASSOCIATION.]
TimarUj Sunday. A fatal motor car accident occurred on Saturday afternoon. * Mr. and Mrs. John Meikle were returning home from town in a. car, Mrs. Meikle, an expert driver, being as usual in charge.
When descending a steep narrow road on a side cutting, near the bouse, the car went over the bank, and capsized over a wire fence.
Mr. Meikle was pitched out, and had his right thigh broken.
Mrs. Meikle was pinned under the car, and suffocated by the weight- on her chest. Some time elapsed before the husband could crawl within the hearing of a maid servant at the house.
The deceased was about 38 years old, and leaves one child, a girl of four. Mr. Meikle was widely known as a driver for Cobb and Co. in the early days, and subsequently as proprietor of the Grosvenor Hotel for many years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13278, 10 September 1906, Page 5
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