YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22173, 29 July 1935, Page 10

YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH

CAR CRASHES INTO GULLY THREE PEOPLE IN HOSPITAL [by telegraph—own correspondent] TAUMARUNUI, Sunday A fatality occurred on the National Park-Taumarunui road about five o'clock this afternoon, when a small sedan motor-car, driven by Mr. Donald Blair, a railway employee, of Taumarunui, who wbs returning to Taumarunui from the Chateau, left the road at a sharp corner at the top of the Piriaka Bill, about six miles from Taumarunui, and crashed about 100 ft. into tho gullv below. The vehicle was wrecked and one of the occupants, Miss Doris Jarvis, aged 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Jarvis, of Manunui, died in the Taumarunui Hospital shortly after 7 o'clock as the result of internal injuries. The driver received injuries to both ankles, and the other two occupants of the car, Mr. and Mrs. B. Hedley, of Manunui, suffered severely from shock. Mrs. Hedley is a sister of Miss Jarvis. Passing motorists extricated the occupants of the wrecked car and summoned Dr. Welbv Fisher, of Taumarunui. The injured people were taken in an ambulance to the Taumarunui Hospital.