THREE KILLED WHEN MOTOR TRUCK CAPSIZES.
AXLES BROKE AND PARTY THROWN OUT.
By Telegraph.— Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Mav 3,2 p.m.) BRISBANE, May 3. A mtor trvick capsized at Redcliffe, killing three persons. Five were serious--I}’ injured, and eleven others suffered minor hurts. The party were proceeding from Ipswich to Redcliffe for a picnic, and were some three miles from their destination, when the stub axles of the front wheels broke. All the occupants of the truck were thrown into the roadway, two being killed outright. The dead are:— Mrs Rebecca Martin. Henry Otto Hollsworth. Mr Hollsworth’s son, Cyril. The injured are suffering mostly from head, back and internal troubles. One little girl had a leg severed.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17836, 3 May 1926, Page 5
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