MOTOR - DRIVER KILLED.
SPEEDING ROUND CORNER. CRUSHED IN A CAPSIZE. [BY TELEGttAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ELTTTAM, Tuesday. As a result of a car getting out of control on a bend on the E!tbam-Stratford road Mr. Dave Chalmers Millin, of New Plymouth, aged 27, a married man, was killed instantaneously when the car somersaulted after hitting a (<ree stump on the roadside. Deceased had his neck broken and chest smashed. There were no passengers and no one saw the accident. An inquest was held, the coroner returning a verdict of death frem suffocation through deceased's chest being crushed as the result of a motor-car he was driving overturning while he was rounding a corner at excessive speed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19142, 7 October 1925, Page 10
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115MOTOR – DRIVER KILLED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19142, 7 October 1925, Page 10
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