YOUNG MAN KILLED
CAR CRASHES OVER BANK By Telegraph-T’ress Association AUCKLAND, December -1. Adrian Oswald Alison, aged 20, of Helensville, was fatally injured when the motor-car in which he was a passenger crashed over a low bank just beyond the Mount Rex railway station on the Helensville-Kaukapakapa main highway. The driver of the car, Len Gray, of Helensville, suffered a broken collar bone and was taken to a private hospital in Helensville. Alison was taken to hospital with extensive injuries to the chest and broken ribs. He died about two hours after , the accident.
Before the crash the car struck a series of potholes in the road and • ot out of control. It swerved to both sides of the road and then careered over the bank, landing with the wheels uppermost. Three young children who were also in the car were affected by shock, but were uninjured .
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21211, 5 December 1938, Page 6
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