CAR HITS LORRY
ONE PASSENGER KILLED By Telegraph—Press Association BLENHEIM, June 16. Tragedy overtook a party of six Wairau Valley farmers last evening, when returning home from attending a funeral in Blenheim. Within a couple of miles from the Wairau Valley township, on a straight, wide stretch of the highway, the car, driven by George Gordon Davidson, collided with a laden timber lorry, with a result that Leonard Leslie Hart, married, with one child, was killed instantly, while Davidson himself is not expected to live. Both received fearful head injuries, when the body of the car, a big sedan, was’ practically ripped off the chassis. Evidently the bodywork struck the men on the heads, with shocking consequqpces. Tire four other occupants had a marvellous escape in the circumstances, suffering only severe shock. The accident occurred just after dark. It can only be assumed that the driver of the ill-fated car miscalculated the margin to pass the lorry, with a result that the windscreen hit the timber alongside the cab. The lorry driver was Mervyn Prentice.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20446, 17 June 1936, Page 5
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175CAR HITS LORRY Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20446, 17 June 1936, Page 5
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