ANOTHER TRAGEDY

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1926, 26 October 1926, Page 5

ANOTHER TRAGEDY

LADY'S HEAD CRUSHED BY MOTORCAR.

(By Association.) OHRITCIHUR'aH, Monday. While a r seait on the ISlunin.Hir Esplanade yesterday"~"af te'rnoon, Mrs Matild'a Feathersltone, aged 65, wilfe of Captain Fearjlwstbne, of Kaiapefi was killed instantly by being clrushed between, a mcl:or-car and a stone lamp, standard. Mr Henry Jsleale, of Springston, who had parked his car, was starting it again, when it shot' oult straight for the beach below the sea wall. The driver, in imdeavouring to avoid being hurled over the esplanade on to thte t'eacfj., turned| sharply to the left, ainti, Mding over the keirbing,' struck the seat end on, crumpling, lit tb matchwood and carrying it about the car's n.ingith |:lill the car w'alsi brought to a standstill against thje. heavy stone lamp base. Mrs Feathersitone,' who was sitting on the far end of the-seat with her daughter, wais picked ufp on a bumper bar amd jammed against the sfcone lamp bastei, her he'ad bleing crushed. Her comb was.tfound afterwiards between ,t)he (radiator and the mudguard of the car. ; ' - ■ • - ; .

Mrs IFeathersltone's dauglhfcer escaped with slight injuries ,to hter legs, caused by thWl splihters of the seat.