MOTOR FATALITY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 29, 28 July 1911, Page 5

MOTOR FATALITY

CAR PLUNGES INTO RIVER. THREE PEOPLE DROWNED. Bgr Chkle —Press Associa/ti«»—Copyright. Received 27, 8.30 p.m. Sydney, July 27. A motor-car with three passengers and a driver aboard plunged into the Hunter river, near Musswellbrook. The passengers, Mrs. Barrington, Alderman Mackay, of Enfield, and another man named Flavey, were drowned. The driver escaped. The party was returning from Merriwa late at night. It was very dark. Twelve miles from Muswellbrook the road runs close to the river bank. The motor-car ran off and plunged jnto the flooded river, forty feet bielow. The chauffeur (Suess) was thriWWi clear of the car, and was washed for several hundred yards down the river. He managed to rid' Himself of his overcoat, and then scrambled ashore. Mrs. Barrington's body was recovered. She was a prominent worker in the Liberal cause in Victoria and New South Wales, and was touring the district as an organiser of the Liberal League. Mr. Mackay was ex-Mayor of Enfield, 'and well known as a carcase butcher. , Mr. Flavey was the manager of the Tindale Company at Muswellbrook. . PLUNGED INTO 30 FEET OF WATER. Received 27, 10.15 p.m. Sydney, July 27. Suess, a stranger to the district, being unaware that floods had scooped out a portion of a road, necessitating a deviation, followed the old road and plunged into a'gap containing 30 feet of water.