ROAD FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23331, 25 October 1937, Page 8

ROAD FATALITIES

SPORTS CAR SOMERSAULTS DRIVER SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES PILLION RIDER KILLED (Per United Press Association) WANGANUI, Oct. 24. Two road fatalities occurred near Wanganui on Saturday evening. Maurice King, a single man, aged 21 years, the only son of Mr and Mrs S. A. G. King, of Wanganui, was travelling towards Wanganui from Bulls on the main highway and failed to negotiate a bend just south of Turakina with a light sports mode] car without a hood. The vehicle somersaulted, apparently three times, and King, who was the only occupant, received severe head injuries, and was apparently killed instantaneously. He was well known in Wanganui because of his ability as an air pilot. Having joined the Wanganui Aero Club when a youth, he quickly adapted himself to the control of Moth planes. The other accident occurred at Kai Iwi. Bertram Walter Fitzwater, single, aged 20 years, the third son of Mr and Mrs F. Fitzwater, of Patea, was travelling as pillion rider on a motor cycle driven by Sidney Rice, of Aro street, Wellington. The cycle was apparently involved in a collision with a motor lorry on the main road right in Kai Iwi township, as a result of which Fitzwater received a fractured skull. He was rushed to the Wanganui Hospital, but died at 6.30 p.m. His father _is superintendent of the Patea Fire Brigade, and the deceased, who had been working in Wellington, was on his way home for the Labour Day week-end.