PASSENGER KILLED WHEN CAR CAPSIZES.
Per Press Association. GISBORNE, January 20. While returning to town from the country at noon to-day, a light car occupied by four men, skidded in loose gravel on a corner at Matawhero, about four miles from Gisborne, and overturned three times. Erik Gidgeon Ogren, a watersider, aged forty-three years, was killed, and the driver of the car, George Nelson, was seriously injured. The other two passengers were Frederick Stanley, who was injured on the leg and arm, and Thomas M’Connell, who received cuts on the scalp and face. Nelson was removed to the Cook Hospital with serious head injuries, but Stanley and M’Connell suffered only slight injuries.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18971, 21 January 1930, Page 4
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