PEDESTRIAN VICTIM
TRAGEDY AT MIDNIGHT MARLBOROUGH HIGHWAY (Per Press Association.) BLENHEIM, this day. The new year began badly in Marl. borough when a fatal accident occurred within two hours of midnight on Saturday night, an elderly pedestrian being killed by an overtaking motor car on the highway at Spring Creek. It was the first serious road accident of the holidays In this district. The victim was James Reed, aged 56, single, a labourer, formerly a resident of Nelson. The car was driven by Alick Morgan, aged 23, of Marshlands, who was returning from a New Year's Eve carnival in Blenheim accompanied by his sister'ana another young man. Mr. Reed, who was wearing a dark suit, was walking along the bitumen surfacing within a few chains of his whare when he was struck by the left-hand front bumper of the car, sustaining a fractured skull which was instantly fatal.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19827, 3 January 1939, Page 5
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