PEDESTRIAN KILLED
MISHAP AT WELLINGTON. Electric Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, February 10. Wellington's long period of freedom irom read fatalities ended this morning, when Phil Commons, of 25 Sydney Street, Petone, was knocked down by a car on the Hutt Road and suffered a fracture of the base of the skull from which he died in hospital an hour and a half later. Mr Commons, who was employed <cn housing work in Onslow Road, had alighted from a bus with another man and ran in front of the bus. Making for the side of the ing from Petone. His companion escaped injury. The fatality brought down the city's road safety pennant, which had been flying since December 5.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14065, 11 February 1939, Page 5
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