DEATH AT MOTOR WHEEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19125, 17 September 1925, Page 10

DEATH AT MOTOR WHEEL.

WOMAN EXPIRES IN CAR. CRASH OVER EMBANKMENT. With a woman driver dead at its wheel, a motor-car crashed over an embankment on the Windsor Road on September 6, says a Sydney paper. # Three passengers by the car, which capsized on reaching the ground below, had remarkable escapes from injury. The story told by the passengers, and an examination of the car-tracks, indicated that the driver had been dead for some minutes before the accident. She had been und4r medical treatment for heart trouble during the past few months. I The driver was Fanny Elizabeth Bcw- ! man, aged 42 years, car-owner, of Clarendon, near Windsor. The passengers, all of whom were treated at Windsor HosSital, and then allowed to go to their omes, were: —John William Ross, of Windsor, abrasions to the face; Caroline Fhipps, of North Richmond, shock, and Lucy Flude, shock. V: The car, driven by Miss Bowman, who conducted a car-hiring business near Windsor, left Pairramatta just before midnight. It had reached Rouse Hill, about nine miles out from Windsor, when the accident occurred. . ' Miss Bowman, sitting at tha driving wheel, assumed a queer, forward position, and received a remark addressed to herir« a silence that contrasted directly with the brightness of her conversation "in the earlier part of the journey. A minute later passengers, looking from tho car, observed that it had assumed & course slightly diagonal across the roadway, there banked to a height of about 6ft. above the surrounding country. * In another minute, before anything could be done to alter its direction, the car, on the whe*>l of which its driver's useless hands stHl rested, went over the side of the road. Luckily it had been travelling only at a moderate pace. The passengers, who were still in their seats at the time of its capsize, escaped without serious hjvrm. A passing car took them, and the body ot Miss Bowman, to Windsor Hospital. Dr - p ; Arnold, who there received them, had had Miss Bowman under his charge for months. His examination of her body indicated no injury serious enough to eaus*. death. After tho examination he i stated that he believed Miss Bowman was j dead before the accident took place. Her heart had for some time been weak.