THE BLENHEIM COACH ACCIDENT.
By Telegraph—Press Association
BLENHEIM, Nov. 23.
Further details in connection with the coach accident show that the river was not in flood. When mid way through the horses jibbed and when touobed with the J whip appeared, to loose their feet and the trap turned over. Prank Waskett, the driver, 42 years of age and single, Mrs Boddington, 29 years of age, and an infant three weeks old, were drowned. Bolton, who was reported to have been drowned, had a miraculous escape. Mainly through bis presence of mind in closing his mouth and stiffening his body he floated twenty chains, and was washed ashore half drowned. He made his way to a deserted whare and, recovering in the morning, gave the alarm. Waskett's : body has., not been re covered.
THE INQUEST.
BLENHEIM, November 23. At the inquest, to day, on the .body of Mrs Bonnington and her infant, drowned in the Wairau River on Wednesday, the jury found that the deoeaesd met their death hy drowning owing to the Wairau-Top Valley mail ooaob capsizing,and that the driver, P. Worskett, committed an error of judgment in crossing the ford a few yards below the point of safety.
GABLE NEWS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8294, 24 November 1906, Page 5
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205THE BLENHEIM COACH ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8294, 24 November 1906, Page 5
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