TRAGIC CAR SMASH
ONE PASSENGER KILLED TN GRAVE STATE COLLISION WITH LORRY (Per Press Association.) BLENHEIM, this day. Tragedy overtook a party of six Wairau Valley farmers last evening when returning home from attending a funeral in Blenheim.
When within a couple of miles of Wairau Valley township, on a straight, wide stretch of highway, the car, which was driven by George Gordon Davidson, collided with a laden timber lorry, with the result that Leonard Leslie Hart, a married man with one child, was killed instantaneously, while Mr. Davidson himself is not expected to live. Both men received fearful head injuries when the body of the «ar, a big sedan, was practically ripped off the chassis. Evidently the bouywork struck the men on- the heads -with shocking consequences. The four other occupants had a marvellous escape in the circumstances, suffering only severe .shock. The accident occurred just after dark. it can only be assumed that the driver of the ill-fated car miscalculated the margin to pass the lorry, with the result that, the windscreen hit the timber alongside the cab of the lorry.
The driver of the lorry was Mervyn Prentice.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19042, 16 June 1936, Page 4
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