SMASH IN DARK.
BODY OF CAB SIPPED OFF.
ONE OCCUPANT KILLED. BLENHEIM, June 16. Tragedy overtook a party of six .Wairau Valley farmers last evening when they were returning home from attending a funeral in Blenheim. Within a couple of miles of the Wairau Valley township on a straight, wide stretch of highway their car, which was driven -by George Gordon Davidson, collided with a laden timber lorry, with the result that Leonard Leslie Hart, a married man with one child, was killed instantly ’and Davidson himself is not expected, to live. Both received fearful head injuries when the body of the ear, a big sedan, was practically ripped off the chassis. Evidently the bodywork struck the men on the heads, with shocking consequences. The four other occupants had a marvellous escape in the circumstances, suffering only severe shock. The accident occurred just after dark. It can only be assumed that the driver of the car miscalculated the margin - necessary tb pass the lorry, with the result that the windscreen hit the timber i alongside cab of the lorry. The driver of the'lorry was Mervyn Prentice.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 17 June 1936, Page 5
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186SMASH IN DARK. Wairarapa Age, 17 June 1936, Page 5
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