MOTOR FATALITY.
MAN KILLED IN WAIRARAPA ANOTHER SERIOUSLY INJURED. CAR FALLS OVER 40FT. BANK. [BY TEIJECaATH.—PSESS ASSOCIATION'.] MASTERTON. Sunday. A motor fatality occurred about midday yesterday on Bowen Road, four miles from Eketahuna, resulting in the death of Mr. David Ayson, a married man, a motor mechanic at Palmerston North. With Mr - William Orr, customhouse agent, of Scatoun, and Mr. George Ayson, decoased was proceeding from Palmerston to Wellington. It appears from the meagre information available that the car, which was driven by Orr, got into a water table. In the endeavour to extricate it the car made a bound across the road, and before it could be straightened up, dived headlong over a bank, falling a distance of 40ft. Mr. David Ayson and Mr. George Ayson received serious injuries, but Mr. Orr escaped with bruises. Mr. David Ayson died at Kohuaranga, seven miles from Masterton, while being brought to the Masterton Hospital with the other injured men by Dr. Simmers, of Eketahuna. Mr. George Ayson is in a serious condition.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18222, 16 October 1922, Page 6
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