GIRL’S MORTAL INJURIES
UNMANAGEABLE MOTOR-CYCLE.
RIDER CARRIED AGAINST POST.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
•Napier, Last Night. A fatal accident befel an 18-year-old girl named Hone Hayward as she was riding a motor-cycle along the HastingsNapier Road at about 5.15 this afternoon. The accident took place where the main concrete road makes a wide sweep round a corner by the Tomoana showgrounds, and it appears that the girl rode into a bad patch of loose shingle. The machine becoming unmanageable,’ her body struck a telegraph post, inflicting terrible injuries to her head, arms and legs, from which death took place almost instantaneously. There was no eye-witness of the accident, but a service car driver arrived on the scene a very few moments afterwards. ' . ’ Miss Hayward was the daughter of Mr. L. J. Hayward, Hastings.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1930, Page 9
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