EIGHTY-FOOT DROP
MOTOR-CAR GOES OVER PRECIPICE. THREE MEN KILLED. SYDNEY, Oct. 30. A motor-car containing four men, owing to a mechanical defect, crashed through the guard rails bordering the road near Emu Plains, and fell 80 feet into a dry watercourse. Of the four occupants, Edward Dennison, M. McDonald, and Clyde Gotts were killed and Frederick Woodall seriously injured. The accident was only discovered when another party of motorists noticed the broken fence, peered over the brink, saw the wreckage below and the prostrate forms of the victims.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19443, 31 October 1925, Page 9
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88EIGHTY-FOOT DROP Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19443, 31 October 1925, Page 9
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