MOTOR SMASH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21920, 4 April 1933, Page 8

MOTOR SMASH

FOUR PERSONS KILLED FURTHER DETAILS OF TRAGEDY (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 3. Mr E. J. Dickson, who died in hospital, is the son of Mr John Dickson, formerly of Christchurch. Ho played Rugby for the Marists in Christchurch and in Wellington. Miss Morris Buffered injuries to her back, left shoulder, and chest. The party left the cabaret at midnight, intending to return to the city immediately. . They had not gone far down Milne terrace, a steep metalled road leading to the cabaret, when the accident occurred. It appears that Miss Morris occupied the front seat with Mr Hooker, and the other members of the party, all of whom are dead, were in the back of the car. Nearing a hairpin bend at Cliff House the driver attempted to turn the car, which did not respond sufficiently. The next instant it crashed through the fence at the top of the bank, broke through a second fence further down, caught in a creeper clinging to the hillside, and somersaulted. It passed between the bank and the telegraph wires flanking Derwent street. Some of the occupants were thrown out in the descent, and the car crashed on to the bitumen roadway 42 feet below. Mr and Mrs Wood and Miss Barbedes were killed outright, all receiving terrible head injuries.