ROPES USED TO RECOVER BODY.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON ROAD NEAR ELTHAM. Per Press Association. ELTHAM, June 30. Mrs Lydia Flyger, aged seventy-three, died as a result of shock received in a motor accident at Omoana, thirty-four miles from Eltham, on Saturday night. A car driven by John Williams Richards, sheep fariwer of Moeroa. went over a bank, falling forty feet until it was caught was trees, which prevented a further drop of three hundred feet. Richards and his wife were uninjured, and they climbed out of a window. Mrs Flyger, who was in the back seat, asked to have luggage lifted off her body, and then collapsed, dying almost immediately.
It was necessary to use ropes to recover the body from the car. At the inquest, a verdict was returned that death was due to heart failure following shock, as a result of an accident, no blame being attachable to the driver.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19109, 30 June 1930, Page 6
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