GIRL KILLED INSTANTLY
MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED FALL FROM HOOD OF DRIVER UNAWARE OF ACCIDENT. By Telegraph.—--Press Association. . Wellington, Last Night. This morning soon after midnight a young woman was killed outright and a man was very seriously , injured through falling from a rooting car near Lower Hutt. The girl killed was Ivy Byron, aged 18, who lived at 132 Tinakori Road, Wellington. The man injured was Chandon Richmond Batkin, aged 42, who was reported to be in a very low condition , at 6 p.m. to-day. Both the dead girl and her companion were sitting apparently on the turned down hood of the car, which was a three-seater, perched up behind the driver, and there were two other people alongside . him. The driver, Charles Batkin, of Clareville, Masterton, brother of the man who was injured, noticed suddenly that the pair behind were no longer with them. The car was stopped and they retraced their path some little distance, coming eventually upon the bodies lying on the road. The accident occurred near the Nai Nai Road. 'Whether the two people fell through a swerve or a bump in the road or from any other cause has not yet been determined.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1930, Page 11
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