ANOTHER VICTIM
"DEATH VILLAGE" HILL OP MANY CRASHES LONDON. Dec. 1. There was another fatal crash yesterday at. Blakeney, Forest, of Dean, where the number of recent fatalities has earned for the place the name "Death Village." A. "skull and crossbones" sign has been erected at the top of the .steep hill winding down to the village square. William Walker Whitfield, 16, was delivering milk at a house yesterday, when a lorry got. out of control on the hill, and overturned on him. lie was killed instantly. The driver of the lorry. Thomas Henry Lowell, of Newport, was lifted, shaken but uninjured, from the twisted remains of hist cabin. Glass (lew all over the breakfast, table of the occupants of the house, who were imprisoned by the wreckage. The "Death List," chalked, upon the police-station wall as a warning to roatifarers, bad a new mark on it. last night. Twenty-five lorries have within a comparatively short time crashed on the hill. and nearly every building in the square, including the police-station, bears signs of recently repaired damage. 'Gloucestershire County Council's men are straightening a dangerous Lend in the hill in an effort to slop the accidents.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 23 January 1936, Page 3
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196ANOTHER VICTIM Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 23 January 1936, Page 3
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