COACH DRIVING FATALITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15377, 12 August 1913, Page 7

COACH DRIVING FATALITY.

.DRIVER FALLS OVER BANK.

FOCtfl> WITH NECK BROKEN.

VEHICLE'S PERILOUS TRIP.

Gisborne, Monday. a occurred at Ruakituri on <!'iturriiy- m connection with which a mystery appears to be involved. Joseph Brown, the victim, an employee of the Hade's Bay Motor Company, was driving a married couple from Wairoa fo p apu m elation, Ruakituri. n appears that the driver got off ■ the nroper when near the Papa Creek, where a bridge is in t'be course of erec-t-on an< * tr ' c< * *° TV7& a^on S a fapa ', 3ft wide. It was impossible *o tm-n back, so the vehicle was driven along the ledge for a short distance with ,r ft wheels on one side hanging on the and the axle dragging on the \marently the travellers got as far as ♦hey could in this perilous way, and then took the horses out and left the buggy. 4g, to what happened then there is only vsgue information available, but it is said that the horses started off, and that Brc-'rn, who was a man well accustomed to horses, in trying to head them slipped oT er the bank, about two chains further on than the narrow ledge, where there is a wide road. The drop would be about 30ft. He was subsequently picked up in the river bed with his head lying at the edge of the water. It is believed his neck was broken. The body was taken to Wairoa. It is not clear from the information to hand how Brown came to fall over the bank at the spot he did. Brown was a single ,aan, •£ years of age. He was a capable driver and horseman.