TWO BROTHERS ARE KILLED IN SMASH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19268, 3 January 1931, Page 1

TWO BROTHERS ARE KILLED IN SMASH.

CAR TAKES PLUNGE OF 250 FEET INTO GORGE Per Press Association. NAPIER, January 3. Two brothers, Wilfred Selwyn, aged thirty-three, and Bernard Augustus Osborne, aged fortytlrnee, of Palmerston North, were killed when their car plunged down a steep incline of 250 feet at the Devil’s Elbow, about twenty miles from Napier, on the main road to Wairoa, early last evening. As they were travelling uphill towards Napier they encountered a service car owned by the Duco Company. Owing to the dangerous nature of the hill and precipitous formation of the bank on the left they were hugging the opposite bank and consequently were travelling on their wrong side of the road. As the service car came into view they pulled to the left, the swerve taking them on to the brink of a terrific drop. The driver appeared to be unable to straighten up again before the outside wheels of his car were over the edge of the bank, and, carried by its own weight, the vehicle slid slowly over, hurtling to the bottom of the gorge once all four of its wheels had left the road.

Both men died from the terrible injuries they received. The bodies were brought to Napier. An inquest was opened this morning and was adjourned after evidence of identification had been given by a cousin of the Osborne family, named Honore.