MOTORIST KILLED
CAR OUT OF CONTROL | SOMERSAULTS INTO POLE PASSENGERS SERIOUSLY INJURED (Per United Press Association.) New Plymouth, February 11. One man was killed and two others seriously injured when their car careered out of control for 100 yards finally to turn several somersaults on the Waihi Road at Hawera. Charlie Arnold Haylock, a railway fireman, single, aged 29, was’ killed. Those injured are: George Webster, railway fireman, who has concussion and injuries to the back and arm. Allan C. Sim, also a railway fireman, who has concussion, injuries to his back and abrasions. Both the injured men are unmarried. Late to-night neither was out of danger, though Sim was recovering from the effects of concussion. Both had recovered consciousness.
The car had just passed another vehicle when it skidded off the camber of the road, bumped over a raised crossing and somersaulted into a telegraph pole.
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Southland Times, Issue 22813, 12 February 1936, Page 6
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