YOUTHFUL DRIVER KILLED
LORRY RASHES INTO POLE. OTHER OCCUPANT UNINJURED. By Telegraph.—Press Assoeiatiori. Whangarei, Feb. 16. A motor van owned by Mansons, cater* ers, Whangarei, when returning from the Northern Wairoa show crashed into a telegraph pole on the Maunu Road, three miles from Whangarei, at 4 o’clock yesterday morning. The driver, James Hughes, aged 17, -was imprisoned in the wreckage, which had to be sawn away in order to release him. So extensively was he injured that - he died in hospital shortly after admission. Another youth, Harold Gregory-Man-son, the only other occupant of the van, was thrown clear and escaped unscathed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1931, Page 7
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