EIGHT KILLED IN CARS
COLLISION AT HIGH SPEED; DAWN TRAGEDY IN CANADA # VANCOUVER, August 4 Sudden death overtook eight persons in two motor-cars, which met in a head-on collision near Perdue, Saskatchewan, just after dawn. Both drivers had turned off their headlights and both were exceeding 60 miles an hour when they met on the top of a slight rise 011 a well-paved country highway. The "NYilkic party, consisting of six young people, had spoilt, the previous day at Saskatoon Exhibition. They were speeding homeward to deliver two nurses to their hospital jobs early in the morning. The vehicle which collided with them was a light car, containing three people in the front seat, including the driver, McCritchie. He was the only survivor and was badly hurt. Charlus Brady, rsleep in another car a few hundred yards away, was awakened by the crash. He ran and fulled three bodies from the wreckage before it took fire and incinerated the others. V y%->.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23117, 16 August 1938, Page 9
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