FOUR KILLED

Southland Times, Issue 21982, 4 April 1933, Page 6

FOUR KILLED

CAR PLUNGES OVER BANK. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, April 3. Regarding Sunday’s tragedy when a large touring car plunged over a bank at Island Bay and four people were killed, E. .J. Dickson, who died in hospital, was a son of John Dickson, formerly of Christchurch. He played Rugby for Marists in Christchurch and in Wellington. Miss Morris sustained injuries to her back, left shoulder and chest. Tire party had left the cabaret at midnight, intending to return to the city immediately. They had not gone far down Milne Terrace, a steep metalled road leading to the cabaret, when the accident occurred. It appears that Miss Morris occupied the front seat with Hooker and the other members of the party, all of whom are dead, were in the back of the car. Nearing the hairpin bend at Cliff House, the driver attempted to turn the car, which did not respond sufficiently, and the next instant it crashed through the fence at the top of the bank, broke through a second fence further down, caught in the creeper clinging to the hillside and somersaulted. It then passed between the bank and the telegraph wires flanking Derwent street. Some of the occupants were thrown out in the descent and the car crashed on to the bitumen roadway 42 feet below. Mr and Mrs Wood and Miss Bardebes were killed outright, all receiving terrible head injuries.