NEW YEAR ROAD SMASHES
SIX KILLED IN N.S.W
(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Jan. 3, 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 2.
The New Year holidays again took a heavy toll of life and limb. Six persons were killed and several others so seriously injured that there is little hope of their recovery, in road accidents in New South Wales. During the week-end more than 40 persons were injured in Sydney alone. According to the police there were scores of road smashes in which many motorists escaped with a shaking or minor cuts.
The most serious accident occurred when a utility truck somersaulted four times down Bellevue Hill as a result of which two women and a man are dead and a second man is in a critical condition.
(Other accidents appear on page 3.)
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19827, 3 January 1939, Page 5
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134NEW YEAR ROAD SMASHES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19827, 3 January 1939, Page 5
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