SHOCKING MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT.

Colonist, Volume XLVIX, Issue 11813, 18 December 1906, Page 4

SHOCKING MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT.

ONE LADY KILLED, AND ANOTHER INJURED. Wellington, December 17. Mrs Kensington, wife of Mr W. 0. Kensington, Secretary for Lands, was killed this evening, by being run over by a motor car, at the foot of Bowen-street. Mrs Kensington, accompanied by her two daughters, Misses Louisa and Olive Kensington, had been into the city during the afternoon, and the three were walking homewards along Lambton Quay shortly before 5 o'clock. When they reached Bowen-street crossing a Fire Brigade motor car, driven by a .man named Spry, approached the same spot, bound for the Botanical Gard ans, where a fire had broken out. The car passed right over Mrs Kensington, scattering her brains on the roadway. Miss Louisa was also thrown down and was picked up with a compound fracture of the left leg. Miss Olive was uninjured. It is said that the motorman sounded his alarm, and swerved to avoid the ladies, but they became confused at the approach of tbe machine. Spry was previously engaged driving the motors between Napier and Taupo. .