MOTOR-CYCLE FATALITY.
MAN KILLED INSTANTLY.
TWO OTHERS INJURED.
ACCIDENT AT WELLINGTON. [BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Sunday. A shocking motor-cycle fatality occurred at the corner of Davis Street and Thorndon Quay at 6 p.m. yesterday. three men, Frederick William Joliands, William Gunter, and George Sullivan were returning home on a, motor-cycle after a ride to Petone. Gunter was driving, and Hollands and Sullivan were sitting behind the machine. When endeavouring to turn into Davis Street at a high speed Gunter lost control of the machine, and all three were thrown to the ground. Jollands was killed almost instantly, and the other two were badly injured, and rendered unconscious.
vjunter and Sullivan were taken to the hospital, and are still unconscious.
Jollands was a married man, 49 years of age.
Eye-witnesses state that the machine was travelling at a"very high speed along Thorndon Quay, and police constables returning- from Pet-one by train report that they saw the machine travelling along the Hutt Road at a speed of between forty and fifty miles per hour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17277, 29 September 1919, Page 6
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173MOTOR-CYCLE FATALITY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17277, 29 September 1919, Page 6
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