FATAL PLUNGE IN CREEK.
WOMAN PINNED UNDER CAR. TWO COMPANIONS ESCAPE. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, Monday. A motor-car driven by Mr. Theodore Allen, with two passengers, Mrs. May Jones and Mrs. Bertha Simpson, was returning from Waipori late last night when it swerved off the road near Berwick and plunged loft< into a creek with 3ft. of water in it. The car turned over and Mrs. Jones was pinned under it and drowned The others were rescued and taken to the Dunedin Hospital. Their injuries are not serious.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20332, 13 August 1929, Page 8
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