CROSSING FATALITY
CAPSIZE OF MOTOR TRUCK.
IBy TeleeraDh. Press Association.) MATAMATA, Wednesday.
A motor accident resulting in the death of Miss Greta Salmon aged 19 years, of Rotorua, occurred at a railway crossing about a mile south of Matamata shortly after 9 o'clock last evening. Miss Salmon was one of a party of seven, which was proceeding in a l'ght motor truck from Rotorua to Te Aroha to attend a dance.
The truck, which was driven by Mr Victor Russell Lloyd, of Rotorua, capsized at the crossing, which connects roads running parallel on either side of the railway line. Miss Sa'mon, who was sitt-'ng on the outside of the front seat was crushed. She was immediately taken to a private hospital, which is only a short distance away, but expired shortly after midnight. The rest of the party escaped injury. The girl's mother res'des in Auckland and her father, Mr Wi'liam Herbert Salmon, is a railway surfaceman stationed at Matata.
An inquest was opened before Mr A. J. Tong, coroner, this morning and adjourned sine die after evidence of identification had been taken.
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Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3215, 11 August 1932, Page 4
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