Seventy-miles-an-hour Suicide Drive
NZPA—Copyright SYDNEY, Oct. 15. .A youth committed suicide at Newcastle last night by driving a utility truck at 70 miles an hour over a 120foot cliff. He was Neville Chiplin, aged 19. His badly-broken body was recovered from a mass of wreckage on the rocks below a few minutes before the rising tide covered the ledge. An eye-witness said the truck was driven at top speed down the street, and it was travelling at about 70 miles an hour when it crashed through the safety fence. Notes left by Chiplin indicated that he had committed suicide because of a lovers’ disagreement.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27213, 17 October 1949, Page 5
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