MOTORING TRAGEDY.
CAR DROPS INTO RIVER,
THREE PERSONS TRAPPED.
MOTHER AND TWO SONS
ACCIDENT AT A BRIDGE.
[Br TELEGRAPH. —FEESS ASSOCIATION.] PALMERSTON NORTH. Sunday Mr. Charlos Herbert Withers, a wellknown plumber of Palmerston North, was motoring homo after a visit to Wellington to see the American Fleet, with his wife and two boys, aged 11 and 7 years, when a tragic accident occurred.
Mr. Withers failed to observe a sharp bend in the road at the approach to tho bridge at Rangiotu township across the Oroua River. Tho car crashed through tho protecting fence 20ft. into deep water. Mr. Withers miraculously reached the bank, but the others were trapped in the curtained vehicle and undoubtedly were drowned.
The police and searchers have located tho car, but a3 yet havo been unable to bring it to the bank.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19098, 17 August 1925, Page 8
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137MOTORING TRAGEDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19098, 17 August 1925, Page 8
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